Booker T. Washington: “I learned there for the first time some of its value, not only in keeping the body healthy, but in inspiring…”

As soon as it was learned that he was not an American Negro, all the signs of indignation disappeared.

I never saw a man who so completely lost sight of himself.

But taking place at the time it did, and for the reason that it did, no one could ever make me believe that my mother was guilty of thieving.

The whole machinery of slavery was so constructed as to cause labour, as a rule, to be looked upon as a badge of degradation, of inferiority.