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Black-belt diamonds;

gems from the speeches, addresses, and talks to students of Booker T. Washington ...
  
  
  
  

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What we shall Do

It is said we shall be hewers of wood
and drawers of water, but we shall be more;
we shall turn the wood into houses, into machinery,
into implements of commerce and
civilization; we shall turn the water into electricity,


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into dairy and agricultural products,
into food and raiment.

Our New Citizen (Hamilton Club, Chicago).