George Washington Carver was born in Missouri on the Moses Carver plantation. His parents were slaves.
He taught himself to read. His family was so poor, he couldn't afford to buy a pencil, so he made a holder and used a pencil that was only 1/4 inch long.
He wrote to a college to enroll and they accepted him, but when they found out he was black, they told him he couldn't attend. After five more years, when he was 30 years old, he was accepted at a college in Iowa.
He did a lot of experimenting to find new ways to use different plants. He made more than 300 products from peanuts. He even made soap and ink from peanuts. From sweet potatoes, he made 118 products, including flour and candy. He made 75 products from pecans and even made a building material for walls from cotton stalks.
Money, stylish clothes, and fine cars were not important to him. He thought the truly successful person was the one who had learned to serve others.
He was one of the finest scientists the world has ever known.
(Read the full story at: http://gardenofpraise.com/ibdcarve.htm: )
QUOTES
Our creator is the same and never changes
despite the names given Him by people here
and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave
Him no name at all, He would still be there,
within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.
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No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
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How far you go in life depends on your being tender
with the young, compassionate with the aged,
sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak
and strong. Because someday in your life you will
have been all of these.
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