Booker T. Washington: “You will not accomplish the task which we expect of you if you go with a moody, discouraged, fault-finding disposition.”

I knew that if we failed it would injure the whole race.

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

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

The picture of several dozen boys and girls in a schoolroom engaged in study made a deep impression upon me, and I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study in this way would be about the same as getting into paradise.