“Your race is entitled to great praise for the contribution it makes in doing the work of the world.”

— Calvin Coolidge

1920s, The Progress of a People (1924)
Context: We are not all permitted the privilege of a university training. We can not all enter the professions. What is the great need of American citizenship? To my mind it is this, that each should take up the burden where he is. 'Do the day's work', I have said, and it should be done in the remembrance that all work is dignified. Your race is entitled to great praise for the contribution it makes in doing the work of the world.

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American politician, 30th president of the United States (i… 1872–1933

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