| Summary: | From the introduction by T. Thomas Fortune: "Mr. Washington still lives; and to-day the South possesses no voice stronger than his,--that is teaching Christian love and sympathy and national unity with like power and success...one of the strongest elements of his strength and influence is the respect and confidence of the whole Southern people which he enjoys in such unstinted measure; a respect and confidence which, added to that of the people of the North and West, have enabled him to erect and sustain a lighthouse of knowledge in the Black Belt of Alabama, whose reflection, whose pervasive influence, is blinding the eyes of ignorance and prejudice...It is appropriate to say this much, in submitting to the reader the collection of some of the wise thoughts which Mr. Washington has uttered at various times and places."
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