Booker T. Washington: “It is the weak individual, as a rule, who is constantly calling attention to the other side--to the dark and…”

Despite this disappointment, however, I determined that I would learn something, anyway.

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.

I have long since ceased to cherish any spirit of bitterness against the Southern white people on account of the enslavement of my race.