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… is from page 14 of Thomas Sowell’s superb 1981 volume, Ethnic America: A History [2]:
Nothing has so vindicated the untapped potential of ordinary people as the American experience.
DBx: Pictured here is Madame C.J. Walker – born to parents who were enslaved, she became a successful entrepreneur who died a millionaire (back when a million dollars was genuinely substantial wealth!) [3].