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No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

Booker T. Washington
Race, Diversity, Effort
Booker T. Washington (1982). “The Booker T. Washington Papers: 1912-14”, p.66, University of Illinois Press
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.