Booker T. Washington: “A man cannot have moral character unless he has something to wear, and something to eat three hundred and sixty-five…”

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

She was simply a victim of the system of slavery.

I think that the presentation of facts, on a high, dignified plane, is all the begging that most rich people care for.

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