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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. It is at the bottom of life we must begin, and not at the top.
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28 quotes and quotations by Booker T. Washington ... At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence. ... Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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Throughout his life, ... “For the individuals in the communities to acquire the fundamental skills necessary to begin the process of large-scale socialization, Washington needed to bind the ... Washington wanted the African- American population to, “…abandon their interest in starting at the top of Southern society,
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shall prosper in proportion as we learn to draw the line between the superficial and the substantial, the ornamental gewgaws of life and the useful. No race can prosper till it learns that ... It is at the bottom of life we must begin, and not at the top. Nor should we permit our grievances to overshadow our opportunities.
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Carnegie admits that common jobs are important for the society to succeed, and Washington agrees with this saying, “It is at the bottom of life we must begin, and not at the top.” (Boller, 42) So Washington would agree with ;
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“Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.” Phillips Brooks (1835-1893). "It is at the bottom of life we must begin, and not the top.
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It is at the bottom of life we must begin, and not at the top...To those of the white race who look to the incoming of those of foreign birth and strange tongue and habits for the prosperity of the South, were I permitted I would repeat what I say to my own race, "Cast down your bucket where you are...Cast down your...
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