Booker T. Washington: “I wish that you might realize, perhaps as you have never realized before, how anxious they are that you should succeed…”

Before the end of the year, I think I began learning that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

Until that question was asked it had never occurred to me that there was no period of my life that was devoted to play.

Even to this day I can recall accurately the tortures that I underwent when putting on one of these garments.

Ever since I have been old enough to think for myself, I have entertained the idea that, notwithstanding the cruel wrongs inflicted upon us, the black man got nearly as much out of slavery as the white man did.