Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.
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I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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