Booker T. Washington: “Persons cannot get hold of money without learning to exercise economy, without learning to make everything go just as…”

I have great faith in the power and influence of facts.

Despite this disappointment, however, I determined that I would learn something, anyway.

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.