Booker T. Washington: “How shall we make the mansion on yon Beacon Street feel and see the need of the spirits in the lowliest cabin in Alabama…”

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

I repeat my belief that the world is growing in the direction of giving.

No one section of our country was wholly responsible for its introduction, and, besides, it was recognized and protected for years by the General Government.

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