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Booker T. Washington

"At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence."

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"At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence."

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"Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education."

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"It reaffirmed my long-held belief that education was the enemy of prejudice. These were men and women of science, and science had no room for racism."

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"Trying to educate the dumb with a dumb teacher is nothing but washing the dirty clothes in a dirty water!"

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"If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others."

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"No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process."

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"I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia."

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"A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching."

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"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government."

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"American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century."

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