Booker T. Washington: “Under the influence of the Hampton-Tuskegee idea the races are coming into a closer sympathy and into an honourable and…”

In this connection I have never been able to understand how the slaves throughout the South, completely ignorant as were the masses so far as books or newspapers were concerned, were able to keep themselves so accurately and completely…

As soon as it was learned that he was not an American Negro, all the signs of indignation disappeared.

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

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