Booker T. Washington: “I hope that each one of you, after you graduate, will surround himself at home with what is beautiful, inspiring and…”

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.

I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.

She was simply a victim of the system of slavery.

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.