At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
Source: In Famous Black Quotations, ed. Janet Cheatham Bell, 1995.
-- Booker T Washington, (Apr 5 1856-1915), US educator, social reformer; He established Tuskegee Institute, 1881 and wrote his autobiography Up From Slavery, 1901.