Booker T. Washington: “Whenever you promise, moreover, to do a piece of work for a man, there is a contract binding you to do an honest day's…”

Before the end of the year, I think I began learning that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

I can scarcely imagine any torture, except, perhaps, the pulling of a tooth, that is equal to that caused by putting on a new flax shirt for the first 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.

In order to defend and protect the women and children who were left on the plantations when the white males went to war, the slaves would have laid down their lives.