Booker T. Washington: “It is this trait in the New England character that has come to make the very name itself of that part of the country a…”

I have long since ceased to cherish any spirit of bitterness against the Southern white people on account of the enslavement of my race.

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

Until that question was asked it had never occurred to me that there was no period of my life that was devoted to play.

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