Booker T. Washington: “I was determined, if possible, to make such a record in my class as would cause me to be placed on the “honour roll” of…”

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.

She was simply a victim of the system of slavery.

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 was supremely happy in the opportunity of being able to assist somebody else.