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Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) was an influential African American educator, author, and advisor to multiple U.S. presidents. Born into slavery on April 5, 1856, in Hale's Ford, Virginia, he rose to prominence after the Civil War. Washington founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (no...

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

Booker T. WashingtonMPV

I am afraid that there is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.

Booker T. WashingtonIKB

A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it's accepted by the majority.

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