Booker T. Washington: “If you cannot learn to think, why, you will be of no use to yourself or anybody else.”

The Negro boy has obstacles, discouragements, and temptations to battle with that are little known to those not situated as he is.

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.

As soon as it was learned that he was not an American Negro, all the signs of indignation disappeared.

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