Booker T. Washington: “The making of these bricks taught me an important lesson in regard to the relations of the two races in the South.”

But taking place at the time it did, and for the reason that it did, no one could ever make me believe that my mother was guilty of thieving.

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.

I have great faith in the power and influence of facts.

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