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No race can prosper until it sees as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem
Drawn from what Booker T. Washington said
What Booker T. Washington actually said
- Booker T. Washington American educator, author and orator (1856 to 1915)
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.
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↗Up from Slavery (1901)gutenberg.org
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