The question can be answered only by our putting our consciences into our work, and by our being entirely unselfish in it.
Booker T. Washington: “The question can be answered only by our putting our consciences into our work, and by our being entirely unselfish in…”
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Washington discusses the necessity of selflessness and integrity in one's work to answer important questions.
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This country demands that every race shall measure itself by the American standard.
Wherever our graduates go, the changes which soon begin to appear in the buying of land, improving homes, saving money, in education, and in high moral characters are remarkable.
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