Booker T. Washington: “If you do not learn it now, in a large degree you will be failures in life.”

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

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.

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

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