Booker T. Washington: “In one thing, at least, I feel sure that the English are ahead of Americans, and that is, that they have learned how to…”

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.

From the time that I can remember anything, almost every day of my life had been occupied in some kind of labour; though I think I would now be a more useful man if I had had time for sports.

I do not know how many have noticed it, but I think that it will be found to be true that there are few instances, either in slavery or freedom, in which a member of my race has been known to betray a specific trust.

In order to defend and protect the women and children who were left on the plantations when the white males went to war, the slaves would have laid down their lives.