Quote#Poetry
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in…
Quote byBooker T. Washington · 1856–1915
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Up From Slavery (1901), Chapter XIV: The Atlanta Exposition Address.
English (original)
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
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