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Quotation from Atlanta Exposition Address by 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. It is at the bottom of life we must begin, and not at the top.”
Atlanta Exposition Address, Paragraph 4 (Up from Slavery (1901), Chapter XIV)
His case for honoring common labor as the foundation of a people's prosperity.
Citation: "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." — Booker T. Washington, Atlanta Exposition Address, Paragraph 4 (Up from Slavery (1901), Chapter XIV). (id atlanta-exposition-address-q2)
Portrait: Booker t washington atlanta compromise speech, Unknown author, Public domain.
