”I am afraid that there is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.”

Booker T. Washington
My Larger Education, Being Chapters from My Experience (1911)

Booker T. Washington was a United States educator who was born a slave but became educated and founded a college at Tuskegee in Alabama. (1856-1915)