Booker T. Washington: “Is there not something else I ought to do before I go?" Put your whole souls into whatever you attempt to do.”

She was simply a victim of the system of slavery.

When freedom came, the slaves were almost as well fitted to begin life anew as the master, except in the matter of book-learning and ownership of property.

I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.

I think that the presentation of facts, on a high, dignified plane, is all the begging that most rich people care for.