What Booker T. Washington thinks about patience
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 wordsThe wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremest folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.