Booker T. Washington: “But the highly educated person, the one who is really cultivated, is gentle and sympathetic to everyone.”

As soon as it was learned that he was not an American Negro, all the signs of indignation disappeared.

I can scarcely imagine any torture, except, perhaps, the pulling of a tooth, that is equal to that caused by putting on a new flax shirt for the first time.

I knew that if we failed it would injure the whole race.

In this connection I have never been able to understand how the slaves throughout the South, completely ignorant as were the masses so far as books or newspapers were concerned, were able to keep themselves so accurately and completely…