Booker T. Washington: “In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential…”

She was simply a victim of the system of slavery.

I do not know how many have noticed it, but I think that it will be found to be true that there are few instances, either in slavery or freedom, in which a member of my race has been known to betray a specific trust.

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.

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