Booker T. Washington: “Now there ought to be a higher impulse behind your efforts than that.”

The Negro boy has obstacles, discouragements, and temptations to battle with that are little known to those not situated as he is.

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

The picture of several dozen boys and girls in a schoolroom engaged in study made a deep impression upon me, and I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study in this way would be about the same as getting into paradise.

She was simply a victim of the system of slavery.