 | Booker T. Washington - 2006 - 454 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... | |
 | Karen Sotiropoulos - Social Science - 2006 - 314 pages
...his famous speech urging blacks to cast down their buckets, and stating, "No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem." The following year— the same year that Williams, Walker, and Hogan burst on the vaudeville scene... | |
 | Booker T. Washington - 2006 - 270 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... | |
 | B. Singh Bolaria, Sean Patrick Hier - Social Science - 2006 - 294 pages
...strategy for the "American Negro" was to accommodate to American capitalism. "No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem," Washington proclaimed in 1895. "It is at the bottom of life we must begin, and not at the top."1 The... | |
 | Editors of Chase's - Reference - 2006 - 306 pages
...and leader, born at Franklin County, VA. "No race can prosper," he wrote in Up from Slavery, "till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem." Died at Tuskegee, AL, Nov 14, 1915. For more info: More than Anything Else by Marie Bradby (Orchard,... | |
 | Booker T. Washington - 2006 - 322 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... | |
 | Michael Largey - History - 2006 - 300 pages
...Haitian school system. Price-Mars was attracted to Washington's idea that "no race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem" (Washington 1901/1965, 147). As director of Public Education in Haiti from 1912 to 1916, he sought... | |
 | Elisabeth Israels Perry, Karen Manners Smith - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2006 - 433 pages
...the fact that the masses of us are to live by the productions of our hands 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... | |
 | Franklin E. Rutledge - Political Science - 2007 - 264 pages
...comes for me to go, the Lord would let them take me," Booker T. Washington: "No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem." LAST STEP TO COMPLETE FREEDOM — CIVIL RIGHTS The early 1930s to the 1950s were not easy times for... | |
 | Booker T. Washington - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 461 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... | |
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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. 
