Booker T. Washington: “Hereafter all my thoughts, all my words, all my acts, shall be large, generous, high, pure.”

As a rule, not only did the members of my race entertain no feelings of bitterness against the whites before and during the war, but there are many instances of Negroes tenderly caring for their former masters and mistresses who for some…

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.