Booker T. Washington: “Such a student, if he be bright, will profit more by an experience like this than he could profit by all the books on…”

Despite this disappointment, however, I determined that I would learn something, anyway.

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

Until that question was asked it had never occurred to me that there was no period of my life that was devoted to play.

I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.