Booker T. Washington: “One of the saddest things in life is to see an individual who has grown to old age, with no profession, with no calling…”

No one section of our country was wholly responsible for its introduction, and, besides, it was recognized and protected for years by the General Government.

I cannot remember having slept in a bed until after our family was declared free by the Emancipation Proclamation.

I never saw a man who so completely lost sight of himself.

He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at that time.