 | Manning Marable - History - 2003 - 708 pages
...superficial and the substantial, the ornamental gewgaws of life and the useful. No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. It is at the bottom of life we must begin, and not at the top. Nor should we permit our grievances... | |
 | Annetta Louise Gomez-Jefferson - African American churches - 2002 - 356 pages
...the Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition in 1895. He said, "No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. It is at the bottom of life we must begin." Washington felt it was "folly" to "agitate" for social... | |
 | Tyehimba Jess - History - 2003 - 348 pages
...superficial and the substantial, the ornamental gewgaws of life and the useful. No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. It is at the bottom of life we must begin, and not at the top. Nor should we permit our grievances... | |
 | Jacqueline M. Moore - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 230 pages
...superficial and the substantial, the ornamental gewgaws of life and the useful. No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. It is at the bottom of life we must begin, and not at the top. Nor should we permit our grievances... | |
 | D. V. ரங்கராஜன் - Didactic poetry, Tamil - 2003 - 554 pages
...fffljfln«rT LDeaflffjeafieiir S-smsmiDujiresr 9(0f7 Q&emjsuib g\aismm(Suj 807. No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem - T. Washington o>sBsmff, er(ifigisu^lsb |§)(5s>(<5Ui Qu(5flDLD i£leag>eBiff,u uuflrf Qs ujfij^)gyii... | |
 | Catherine Slaney - History - 2003 - 265 pages
...himself a teacher and former slave from Virginia, disregarded his own higher education when he professed that "there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem."18 Influenced by social and political pressures during the tumultuous period of Reconstruction... | |
 | Life - 210 pages
...essayist and statesman ~ Brutus Hamilton, Olympic pentathlete and coach No race can prosper till it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. - Booker T. Washington, African-American educator and leader It is not only prayer that gives God glory... | |
 | Dianna Daniels Booher - Religion - 2003 - 316 pages
...shaky ladder: we're so focused on the ladder that we can't give all our energy to the task at hand. There is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. —BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Shaky Ladder #1: Those in "Ministry" Have Greater Value to God Than I Do Brain... | |
 | Steven C. Tracy - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 296 pages
...dignify and glorify common labour and put brains and skill into the common occupations of life. . . . No race can prosper until it learns that there is...much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, and not at the top. Nor should we permit our grievances... | |
 | Ronald H. Bayor - History - 2004 - 1032 pages
...and the substantial, the ornamental gewgaws of life and the useful. to to No race can prosper till C+D+E+F+G+H+e+ - -L+M+N+O+[+\+ ,^+_+`+a+W+X+Y+Z+i.j.k.l.m.n.o.b+ ,b,b.c.d.h+i+j+ It is at the bottom of life we must begin, and not at the top. Nor should we permit our grievances... | |
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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. 
