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my full name "Booker Taliaferro Washington."
Booker T. Washington • Up from Slavery: an autobiography
I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate. Even as a boy, I defeated my opponents without dishonouring them.
Nelson Mandela • Long Walk To Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
the man told me that he knew that he did not have to pay the debt, but that he had given his word to the master, and his word he had never broken. He felt that he could not enjoy his freedom till he had fulfilled his promise.
Booker T. Washington • Up from Slavery: an autobiography
Trish Thomas
Principal & Lead Strategist at Akamai Strategy, Founder of Lark Builders
March 12, 2016
I just had the privilege of discovering this beautiful letter from a father to a daughter as she stepped into the great unknown. Yolande was the daughter of W.E.B. DuBois and went abroad to a p... See more
Beautiful letter from W.E.B. DuBois to his daughter Yolande
typically position White people as the superior standard. “Do Americans ever stop to reflect that there are in this land a million men of Negro blood…who, judged by any standard, have reached the full measure of the best type of modern European culture? Is it fair, is it decent, is it Christian…to belittle such aspiration?” Du Bois asked in 1903.
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
In every way you can imagine, the United States was only the land of the free for a very narrow slice of the population. The rugged individualism Hoover sought to restore had a color—... See more