What Booker T. Washington thinks about agency
American educator, author and orator (1856 to 1915); the primary leader of the African-American community from 1890 to 1915; author of Up from Slavery.
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1 dated position, 1895, in their own words. Our reading of what Booker T. Washington has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsIt is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercises of these privileges. The opportunity to earn a dollar in a factory just now is worth infinitely more than the opportunity to spend a dollar in an opera-house.