Booker T. Washington: “You cannot hope to succeed if you keep bad company.”

As soon as it was learned that he was not an American Negro, all the signs of indignation disappeared.

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

I have long since ceased to cherish any spirit of bitterness against the Southern white people on account of the enslavement of my race.

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