 | Jack M. Bloom - History - 1987 - 292 pages
...national fame. He asserted that blacks "shall prosper in proportion as we learn to dignify and glorify common labor and put brains and skill into the common occupations of life." He promised "at all times the patient, sympathetic help of my race." And, he assured whites, "in all... | |
 | Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman - Literary Collections - 1991 - 488 pages
...me brave." — ANNA M. HENDERSON. "We shall prosper in proportion as we learn to dignify and glorify common labor and put brains and skill into the common occupations of life. — BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. "The women of a race should be its pride, We glory in the strength our mothers... | |
 | Lewis V. Baldwin - Biography & Autobiography - 352 pages
...hands, and fail to keep in mind that we shall prosper in proportion as we learn to dignify and glorify common labor and put brains and skill into the common occupations of life; shall prosper in proportion as we learn to draw the line between the superficial and the substantial,... | |
 | Ruth Crocker - History - 1992 - 370 pages
...Color Line: Flanner House, 1898-1930 We shall prosper in proportion as we learn to dignify and glorify common labor and put brains and skill into the common occupations of life. — Booker T. Washington Atlanta Exposition Speech, 1895 In 1889, as Jane Addams moved into Hull House... | |
 | Abu Shardow Abarry - History - 1996 - 852 pages
...hands, and fail to keep in mind that we shall prosper in proportion as we learn to dignify and glorify common labor, and put brains and skill into the common occupations of life; shall prosper in proportion as we learn to draw the line between the superficial and the substantial,... | |
 | Ross Evans Paulson - History - 1997 - 380 pages
...Americans, he stated his belief "that we shall prosper in proportion as we learn to dignify and glorify common labor and put brains and skill into the common occupations of life." To the southern whites, he seemed to say that if they would but help and encourage the former slaves,... | |
 | William Petersen - Social Science - 1997 - 346 pages
...self-dependent. "We shall prosper," he asserted in 1895, "in proportion as we leam to dignify and glorify common labor and put brains and skill into the common occupations of life."25 WEB DuBois (1868-1963) was born in Massachusetts, graduated with honors from an integrated... | |
 | Philip Sheldon Foner, Robert J. Branham - History - 1998 - 952 pages
...hands, and fail to keep in mind that we shall prosper in proportion as we learn to dignify and glorify common labor and put brains and skill into the common occupations of life; shall prosper in proportion as we learn to draw the line between the superficial and the substantial,... | |
 | Lee D. Baker - History - 1998 - 350 pages
...suggested that Negroes could help the United States progress if they "learned to dignify and glorify common labor and put brains and skill into the common occupations of life."28 He also warned Negroes not to migrate North because in the South "the Negro is given a man's... | |
 | Charles Marsh - History - 1997 - 308 pages
...hands, and fail to keep in mind that we shall prosper in proportion as we learn to dignity and glorify common labor and put brains and skill into the common occupations of life; shall prosper in proportion as we learn to draw the line between the superficial and the substantial,... | |
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Our greatest danger is, that, in the great leap from slavery to freedom, we may overlook the fact that the masses of us are to live by the... 
