Booker T. Washington: “I had been at work steadily for eighteen years in connection with Tuskegee, and I had never thought of anything else but…”

From any point of view, I had rather be what I am, a member of the Negro race, than be able to claim membership with the most favoured of any other race.

This tenderness and sympathy on the part of those held in bondage was a result of their kindly and generous nature.

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.

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