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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
Booker T. Washington
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Booker T. Washington
Age: 59 †
Born: 1856
Born: April 5
Died: 1915
Died: November 14
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Do not do that which others can do as well.
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You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.
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I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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