Booker T. Washington: “We must begin our growth where our civilization finds us, and not try to begin on some other civilization.”

In this connection I have never been able to understand how the slaves throughout the South, completely ignorant as were the masses so far as books or newspapers were concerned, were able to keep themselves so accurately and completely…

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

She was simply a victim of the system of slavery.

I cannot remember having slept in a bed until after our family was declared free by the Emancipation Proclamation.