Booker T. Washington: “The average individual thinks he knows a great deal more than he does know.”

The whole machinery of slavery was so constructed as to cause labour, as a rule, to be looked upon as a badge of degradation, of inferiority.

The hurtful influences of the institution were not by any means confined to the Negro.

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

She was simply a victim of the system of slavery.