Booker T. Washington: “Unless you get the idea of truth so pure that you cannot be false in anything, your education is a failure.”

These discussions showed that they understood the situation, and that they kept themselves informed of events by what was termed the “grape-vine” telegraph.

I cannot remember having slept in a bed until after our family was declared free by the Emancipation Proclamation.

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

Before the end of the year, I think I began learning that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.