Booker T. Washington: “I repeat my belief that the world is growing in the direction of giving.”

I think I never saw a community of people so happy over anything as were the coloured people over the prospect of this new building.

Even to this day I can recall accurately the tortures that I underwent when putting on one of these garments.

I was supremely happy in the opportunity of being able to assist somebody else.

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.