Booker T. Washington: “Don't be ashamed to go to church and Sunday school, to the Young Men's Christian Association and the Christian Endeavour…”

No one section of our country was wholly responsible for its introduction, and, besides, it was recognized and protected for years by the General Government.

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.

I have great faith in the power and influence of facts.

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.