Booker T. Washington: “So when you go out from here, buy a bathtub, even if you cannot afford to buy anything else.”

I can scarcely imagine any torture, except, perhaps, the pulling of a tooth, that is equal to that caused by putting on a new flax shirt for the first time.

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.

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

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