Booker T. Washington: “It is disgraceful for a girl to go about with a soiled apron, or with her clothes pinned together.”

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

Despite this disappointment, however, I determined that I would learn something, anyway.

She was simply a victim of the system of slavery.