What Booker T. Washington thinks about empathy

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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, c. 1899, in their own words. Our reading of what Booker T. Washington has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. c. 1899

   Our readingLynching hardens and blunts the moral sense of young white Southerners too

   Their wordsI am not pleading for the Negro alone. Lynching injures, hardens, and blunts the moral sensibilities of the young and tender manhood of the South.

   ↗The Future of the American Negro (1899)gutenberg.org All 18 from this book