Booker T. Washington: “A man cannot respect a girl who punishes her feet in order to make them look small.”

I have long since ceased to cherish any spirit of bitterness against the Southern white people on account of the enslavement of my race.

I knew that if we failed it would injure the whole race.

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

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…