Booker T. Washington: “Been down in de valley, for to pray; An' I ain't done prayin' yet.”

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

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 think I never saw a community of people so happy over anything as were the coloured people over the prospect of this new building.

I have long since ceased to cherish any spirit of bitterness against the Southern white people on account of the enslavement of my race.