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Charlotte Forten Grimke: Let me not...

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Let me not forget again that I came not here for friendly sympathy or for anything else but to work, and to work hard. Let me do that faithfully and well.

Source: Journal of Charlotte Forten, 1953.
-- Charlotte Forten Grimke, (Aug 17 1837-1914), US educator, diarist; She became the first black teacher to ex-slaves and began her bequest to humanity, a detailed journal of the Civil War era, published in 1953.

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