Booker T. Washington: “It is disgraceful for a man to go about with ragged clothes or with clothes fastened together with pins where buttons…”

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

Having once got its tentacles fastened on to the economic and social life of the Republic, it was no easy matter for the country to relieve itself of the institution.

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

I do not know how many have noticed it, but I think that it will be found to be true that there are few instances, either in slavery or freedom, in which a member of my race has been known to betray a specific trust.