Booker T. Washington: “But while we still have something of a monopoly of this work, it is a fact that even this is slipping away from us.”

I have great faith in the power and influence of facts.

I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.

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

I do not know how many have noticed it, but I think that it will be found to be true that there are few instances, either in slavery or freedom, in which a member of my race has been known to betray a specific trust.