Booker T. Washington: “You ought to realize that your actions will not affect yourselves alone.”

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

The picture of several dozen boys and girls in a schoolroom engaged in study made a deep impression upon me, and I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study in this way would be about the same as getting into paradise.

The whole machinery of slavery was so constructed as to cause labour, as a rule, to be looked upon as a badge of degradation, of inferiority.

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.