Booker T. Washington: “We are going to train you so that when you get to that place, if you fail in it, the failure will not be our fault.”

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.

The hurtful influences of the institution were not by any means confined to the Negro.

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

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.