Booker T. Washington: “We want you to go out into the world and use your influence toward securing these reforms.”

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

The Negro boy has obstacles, discouragements, and temptations to battle with that are little known to those not situated as he is.

When persons ask me in these days how, in the midst of what sometimes seem hopelessly discouraging conditions, I can have such faith in the future of my race in this country, I remind them of the wilderness through which and out of which…

Even to this day I can recall accurately the tortures that I underwent when putting on one of these garments.