Booker T. Washington: “I had always sympathized with the “Children of Israel,” in their task of “making bricks without straw,” but ours was the…”

In this connection I have never been able to understand how the slaves throughout the South, completely ignorant as were the masses so far as books or newspapers were concerned, were able to keep themselves so accurately and completely…

I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.

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.

I repeat my belief that the world is growing in the direction of giving.