Booker T. Washington: “I want each boy and each girl who belongs to this institution to be deep down in his or her heart a gentleman or a lady.”

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

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.

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.

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.