Booker T. Washington: “Even to this day I can recall accurately the tortures that I underwent when putting on one of these garments.”

I think I never saw a community of people so happy over anything as were the coloured people over the prospect of this new building.

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.

Despite this disappointment, however, I determined that I would learn something, anyway.

Until that question was asked it had never occurred to me that there was no period of my life that was devoted to play.