Booker T. Washington: “That is the only kind of people worth having.”

The picture of several dozen boys and girls in a schoolroom engaged in study made a deep impression upon me, and I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study in this way would be about the same as getting into paradise.

This tenderness and sympathy on the part of those held in bondage was a result of their kindly and generous nature.

I can scarcely imagine any torture, except, perhaps, the pulling of a tooth, that is equal to that caused by putting on a new flax shirt for the first time.

She was simply a victim of the system of slavery.