Booker T. Washington: “In fact, when I left France, I had more faith in the future of the black man in America than I had ever possessed.”

The whole machinery of slavery was so constructed as to cause labour, as a rule, to be looked upon as a badge of degradation, of inferiority.

I think I never saw a community of people so happy over anything as were the coloured people over the prospect of this new building.

As a rule, not only did the members of my race entertain no feelings of bitterness against the whites before and during the war, but there are many instances of Negroes tenderly caring for their former masters and mistresses who for some…

No one section of our country was wholly responsible for its introduction, and, besides, it was recognized and protected for years by the General Government.