Booker T. Washington: “Let us remember that no other race of people ever had just such a problem to work out as we have.”

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

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.

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.

I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.