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Walter Clinton Jackson A Boys' Life of Booker T. Washington…

To me he seems one of the foremost of living men, because his work is unique,—the Modern Moses, who leads his race and lifts it through Education to ever better and higher things than a land overflowing with milk and honey. History is to know two Washingtons,—one white, the other black, both fathers of their people. I am satisfied that the serious race question of the South is to be solved wisely only by following Booker Washington's policy, which he seems to have been especially born—a slave among slaves—to establish, and, even in his own day, greatly to advance.
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Walter Clinton Jackson A Boys' Life of Booker T. Washington…

One condition only—the revenue of one hundred and fifty thousand of these bonds is to be subject to Booker Washington's order to be used by him first for his wants, and those of his family during his life or the life of his widow. If any surplus is left he can use it for Tuskegee. I wish that great and good man to be free from pecuniary cares that he may devote himself wholly to his great mission.
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Walter Clinton Jackson A Boys' Life of Booker T. Washington…

White Hall (Girls' dormitory) , Chapel (rear) , Tatum Hall (right) , Tuskegee Institute Then an interesting thing happened. Have you noticed how often something interesting turned up with Washington? Perhaps there is a good reason for it. "Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work," Washington himself has said. It was not just an accident after all that these good things were happening. It was because Washington by his work and his good sense had made lasting impressions upon people who were in positions to give him help.
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