Booker T. Washington: “Persons cannot call themselves educated and refined who do not make the matter of the cleanliness and proper care of…”

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

I think I never saw a community of people so happy over anything as were the coloured people over the prospect of this new building.

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

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