Booker T. Washington: “Time and patience and encouragement and work would do the rest.”

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

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.

I can scarcely imagine any torture, except, perhaps, the pulling of a tooth, that is equal to that caused by putting on a new flax shirt for the first time.

This tenderness and sympathy on the part of those held in bondage was a result of their kindly and generous nature.