Booker T. Washington: “I learned there for the first time some of its value, not only in keeping the body healthy, but in inspiring…”

From the time that I can remember anything, almost every day of my life had been occupied in some kind of labour; though I think I would now be a more useful man if I had had time for sports.

I never saw a man who so completely lost sight of himself.

She was simply a victim of the system of slavery.

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.