Booker T. Washington: “I have always felt proud that she refused to go into debt for that which she did not have the money to pay for.”

But taking place at the time it did, and for the reason that it did, no one could ever make me believe that my mother was guilty of thieving.

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

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

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.