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Booker T. Washington: “The general problem we have to work out here, and work it out with fear and trembling, is:--Can we educate the…”

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The general problem we have to work out here, and work it out with fear and trembling, is:--Can we educate the individual conscience?
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Booker T. Washington

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Washington stresses the critical need to educate individual conscience in society.

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