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...those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much sufering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.

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Booker T. Washington
Age: 59 †
Born: 1856
Born: April 5
Died: 1915
Died: November 14
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The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.
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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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