Booker T. Washington: “These meetings, it seems to me, enable me to get at the very heart of all that concerns the school.”

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

She was simply a victim of the system of slavery.

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…

Even the most ignorant members of my race on the remote plantations felt in their hearts, with a certainty that admitted of no doubt, that the freedom of the slaves would be the one great result of the war, if the Northern armies conquered.