Booker T. Washington: “I had always supposed that brickmaking was very simple, but I soon found out by bitter experience that it required…”

In this connection I have never been able to understand how the slaves throughout the South, completely ignorant as were the masses so far as books or newspapers were concerned, were able to keep themselves so accurately and completely…

But taking place at the time it did, and for the reason that it did, no one could ever make me believe that my mother was guilty of thieving.

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

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