Booker T. Washington: “It was a constant delight to me to note the interest which the coloured students took in trying to help the Indians in…”

Even to this day I can recall accurately the tortures that I underwent when putting on one of these garments.

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.

The picture of several dozen boys and girls in a schoolroom engaged in study made a deep impression upon me, and I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study in this way would be about the same as getting into paradise.

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