Booker T. Washington: “As far as the science of what is called begging can be reduced to rules, I would say that I have had but two rules.”

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.

He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at that time.

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 can scarcely imagine any torture, except, perhaps, the pulling of a tooth, that is equal to that caused by putting on a new flax shirt for the first time.