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Black-belt diamonds;

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

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Self-Confidence

The fact that a man goes into the world
conscious that he has within himself the power
to create a wagon or a house gives him a certain
moral backbone and independence in the
world that he could not possess without it.

Century Club (Indianapolis).