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Quotation from Up from Slavery 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.”
Up from Slavery, Chapter XIV (the Atlanta Exposition Address) (Project Gutenberg #2376)
From the 1895 address, urging his hearers to dignify common labor.
Citation: "No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem." — Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery, Chapter XIV (the Atlanta Exposition Address) (Project Gutenberg #2376). (id up-from-slavery-q8)
Virtues: Industry
Portrait: UpFromSlavery cover, Booker T. Washington / Doubleday & Co., Public domain.
