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Booker T. Washington

“At Hampton I not only learned that it was not a disgrace to labour, but learned to love labour, not alone for its financial value, but for labour’s own sake and for the independence and self-reliance which the ability to do something which the world wants done brings. At that institution I got my first taste of what it meant to live a life of unselfishness, my first knowledge of the fact that the happiest individuals are those who do the most to make others useful and happy.”

Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery - An Autobiography
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Up from Slavery - An Autobiography Up from Slavery - An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington
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