Booker T. Washington: “I hope you are learning that labour with the hand, in any form whatever, is not disgraceful.”

I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.

No one section of our country was wholly responsible for its introduction, and, besides, it was recognized and protected for years by the General Government.

I have great faith in the power and influence of facts.

She was simply a victim of the system of slavery.