Booker T. Washington: “An element of strength in the farming and dairying interests of these people is to be found in the fact that many of the…”

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.

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.

From any point of view, I had rather be what I am, a member of the Negro race, than be able to claim membership with the most favoured of any other race.

I repeat my belief that the world is growing in the direction of giving.