Booker T. Washington: “Europeans do not understand how the South can disregard its own laws as it so often does.”

I think I never saw a community of people so happy over anything as were the coloured people over the prospect of this new building.

I can scarcely imagine any torture, except, perhaps, the pulling of a tooth, that is equal to that caused by putting on a new flax shirt for the first time.

Despite this disappointment, however, I determined that I would learn something, anyway.

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.