“There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping
the troubles, the wrongs and the hardships of the Negro race before the
public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their
troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their
wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays.
Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances,
because they do not want to lose their jobs.”
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from My Larger Education, 1911
by Booker T. Washington
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. Nor should we permit our grievances to
overshadow our opportunities.
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from Up From Slavery, 1901
by Booker T. Washington