Booker T. Washington: “And you will find that just in proportion as we do this, we are going to get all we deserve.”

I repeat my belief that the world is growing in the direction of giving.

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

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

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.