With few exceptions, the Negro youth must work harder and must perform his tasks even better than a with youth in order to secure recognition. But ou… - Booker T. Washington

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With few exceptions, the Negro youth must work harder and must perform his tasks even better than a with youth in order to secure recognition. But out of the hard and unusual struggle through which he is compelled to pass, he gets a strength, a confidence, that one missed whose pathway is comparatively smooth by reason of brith and race.

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About Booker T. Washington

Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was an American political leader, educator and author of African ancestry, most famous for his tenure as President of Tuskegee University (1880–1915).

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Birth Name: Booker Taliaferro Washington
Alternative Names: Booker Washington
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The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of race.

In a word, the Negro youth starts out with the presumption against him.

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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.

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