Booker T. Washington: “What are you going to do as your part towards reaching these people, towards carrying to them the light which they need…”

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

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

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