Monday, July 22, 2013

Quotation of the day: Booker T. Washington

Quotation of the day: Booker T. Washington | AEIdeas:
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Quotation of the day: Booker T. Washington
Mark J. Perry | July 22, 2013, 1:53 pm
In 1911, Booker T. Washington wrote:

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.

MP: Those words are still so true today, more than 100 years after Booker T. Washington made that observation….."

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