Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Quote of the Day (Booker T. Washington, on the Power of a ‘High, Pure’ Life)



“There is no power on earth,  that can neutralize the influence of a high, pure, simple and useful life.”—African-American educator, author and orator Booker T. Washington (1856-1915), "The Virtue of Simplicity," from Character Building: Being Addresses Delivered on Sunday Evenings to the Students of Tuskegee Institute (1902)

(Photo of Booker T. Washington at Carnegie Hall, 1906, during his Carnegie Hall lecture on the silver anniversary of Tuskegee Institute; Mark Twain is seated just behind him. Photo appeared originally in The New York Times.)

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