Booker T. Washington: “Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.”

Even to this day I can recall accurately the tortures that I underwent when putting on one of these garments.

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

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.

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.