Booker T. Washington: “I mean by that, that a person who does not get into the habit of keeping the body clean, cannot do the highest work and…”

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.

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…

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

I knew that if we failed it would injure the whole race.