Booker T. Washington: “Don't be ashamed to go to church and Sunday school, to the Young Men's Christian Association and the Christian Endeavour…”

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

I knew that if we failed it would injure the whole race.

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