Booker T. Washington: “I repeat my belief that the world is growing in the direction of giving.”

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.

These discussions showed that they understood the situation, and that they kept themselves informed of events by what was termed the “grape-vine” telegraph.

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.

The picture of several dozen boys and girls in a schoolroom engaged in study made a deep impression upon me, and I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study in this way would be about the same as getting into paradise.