“I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.”

— Booker T. Washington

The Story of My Life and Work, vol. I (1900), ch. XV: Cuban Education and the Chicago Peace Jubilee Address http://web.archive.org/20071031084035/www.historycooperative.org/btw/Vol.1/html/126.html

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African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor 1856–1915

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