I can’t offer you money, position or fame. The...

“I can’t offer you money, position or fame. The first two you have; the last, from the place you now occupy, you will no doubt achieve. These things I now ask you to give up, I offer you in their place work—hard, hard work—the task of bringing a people from degradation, poverty, and waste to full manhood”

— 1896, Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee Institute in Alabama - letter to George Washington Carver