Booker T. Washington: “I want to emphasize the fact that we want you to grow in the direction of character--to grow stronger each day in the…”

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.

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.

In order to defend and protect the women and children who were left on the plantations when the white males went to war, the slaves would have laid down their lives.

He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at that time.