Booker T. Washington: “The central government gave them freedom, and the whole Nation had been enriched for more than two centuries by the…”

She was simply a victim of the system of slavery.

I have long since ceased to cherish any spirit of bitterness against the Southern white people on account of the enslavement of my race.

The Negro boy has obstacles, discouragements, and temptations to battle with that are little known to those not situated as he is.

When persons ask me in these days how, in the midst of what sometimes seem hopelessly discouraging conditions, I can have such faith in the future of my race in this country, I remind them of the wilderness through which and out of which…