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George Washington Carver war ein Botaniker, Chemiker und Erfinder in der Landwirtschaftsforschung in den Südstaaten der USA. Sein offizielles botanisches Autorenkürzel lautet „Carver“.

Selbst als Sklave geboren, absolvierte er später eine akademische Ausbildung und lehrte ehemalige Sklaven Anbautechniken zur Selbstversorgung. Bekannt wurde er wegen seiner Erfindungen und der Entwicklung hunderter von Verwendungszwecken der Erdnuss und anderer Pflanzen, um so die Erträge der Landwirtschaft zu steigern und die Baumwollmonokultur in Alabama zu diversifizieren. 1921 wurde er als erster Afroamerikaner als Experte im Kongress angehört. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. Januar 1864 – 5. Januar 1943
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“I know that my Redeemer lives. Thank God I love humanity, complexion doesn't interest me one single a bit.”

George Washington Carver: In His Own Words http://books.google.es/books?id=JcncXGNSJQQC&hl=es&source=gbs_navlinks_s (1991), edited by Gary R. Kremer, University of Missouri Press, p. 131

“When our thoughts — which bring actions — are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be.”

Quoted in Linda O. McMurray, George Washington Carver: Scientist and Symbol (Oxford University Press, 1982), p. 107

“My attitude toward life was also my attitude toward science. Jesus said one must be born again, must become as a little child. He must let no laziness, no fear, no stubbornness keep him from his duty. If he were born again he would see life from such a plane he would have the energy not to be impeded in his duty by these various sidetrackers and inhibitions. My work, my life, must be in the spirit of a little child seeking only to know the truth and follow it. My purpose alone must be God's purpose - to increase the welfare and happiness of His people. Nature will not permit a vacuum. It will be filled with something. Human need is really a great spiritual vacuum which God seeks to fill… With one hand in the hand of a fellow man in need and the other in the hand of Christ, He could get across the vacuum and I became an agent. Then the passage, "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me," came to have real meaning. As I worked on projects which fulfilled a real human need forces were working through me which amazed me. I would often go to sleep with an apparently insoluble problem. When I woke the answer was there. Why, then, should we who believe in Christ be so surprised at what God can do with a willing man in a laboratory? Some things must be baffling to the critic who has never been born again.”

William J. Federer (2003), George Washington Carver: His Life & Faith in His Own Words http://books.google.es/books?id=Uyktcxy4MHkC&printsec=frontcover&hl=es#v=onepage&q&f=false, p. 68.

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