Booker T. Washington: “We are here for the purpose of educating you, that you may become strong, intelligent and helpful.”

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

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.

But taking place at the time it did, and for the reason that it did, no one could ever make me believe that my mother was guilty of thieving.

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