Booker T. Washington: “Make up your minds, whether you are to live in the city or in the country, that you are going to be constantly employed.”

The hurtful influences of the institution were not by any means confined to the Negro.

I do not know how many have noticed it, but I think that it will be found to be true that there are few instances, either in slavery or freedom, in which a member of my race has been known to betray a specific trust.

No one section of our country was wholly responsible for its introduction, and, besides, it was recognized and protected for years by the General Government.

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.