Booker T. Washington: “In the first place you should be continually on the lookout for opportunities to improve yourselves in your present…”

She was simply a victim of the system of slavery.

Having once got its tentacles fastened on to the economic and social life of the Republic, it was no easy matter for the country to relieve itself of the institution.

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.

I repeat my belief that the world is growing in the direction of giving.