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Booker T. Washington: “If you are not doing this, you are going backward, you are going in the wrong direction.”

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If you are not doing this, you are going backward, you are going in the wrong direction.
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Booker T. Washington

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Washington warns that failing to grow in character and behavior leads to negative outcomes.

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