From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is… — Booker Washington
From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.
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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. It is at the bottom of life we must begin, and not at the top.
Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.
