Booker T. Washington Quote

It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.


Up From Slavery (1901)


It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those...

It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those...

It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those...

It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those...