Booker T. Washington: “We have no right to keep a student here who we do not think is strong enough to go out and be of assistance to somebody…”

Even to this day I can recall accurately the tortures that I underwent when putting on one of these garments.

I think that the presentation of facts, on a high, dignified plane, is all the begging that most rich people care for.

Even the most ignorant members of my race on the remote plantations felt in their hearts, with a certainty that admitted of no doubt, that the freedom of the slaves would be the one great result of the war, if the Northern armies conquered.

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.