Booker T. Washington: “I do not see any hope unless we can depend upon you to change them, you young men and young women who are being educated…”

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

I cannot remember having slept in a bed until after our family was declared free by the Emancipation Proclamation.

I have long since ceased to cherish any spirit of bitterness against the Southern white people on account of the enslavement of my race.

I have always looked upon fame as something to be used in accomplishing good.