Booker T. Washington: “Now, don't suffer the world to put you in this silly, ridiculous position.”

From the time that I can remember anything, almost every day of my life had been occupied in some kind of labour; though I think I would now be a more useful man if I had had time for sports.

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

As a rule, not only did the members of my race entertain no feelings of bitterness against the whites before and during the war, but there are many instances of Negroes tenderly caring for their former masters and mistresses who for some…

She was simply a victim of the system of slavery.