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“The world cares very little what you or I know, but it does care a great deal about what you or I do.
— Booker T. Washington
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Address to the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, Boston, Massachusetts (30 July 1903), printed in "Account of the Boston Riot," Boston Globe (31 July 1903)
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