Booker T. Washington: “No idle person is ever safe, whether he be rich or poor.”

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

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

He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at that time.

Ever since I have been old enough to think for myself, I have entertained the idea that, notwithstanding the cruel wrongs inflicted upon us, the black man got nearly as much out of slavery as the white man did.