Booker T. Washington: “There are those who need your help and your sacrifice.”

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.

Having once got its tentacles fastened on to the economic and social life of the Republic, it was no easy matter for the country to relieve itself of the institution.

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

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