 | Jacqueline M. Moore - 2003 - 230 pages
...it is in the South that the Negro is given a man's chance in the commercial world, and in nothing is this Exposition more eloquent than in emphasizing...prosper in proportion as we learn to dignify and glorify common labour and put brains and skill into the common occupations of life; shall prosper in proportion... | |
 | Tyehimba Jess - 2003 - 348 pages
...it is in the South that the Negro is given a man's chance in the commercial world, and in nothing is this Exposition more eloquent than in emphasizing...prosper in proportion as we learn to dignify and glorify common labour and put brains and skill into the common occupations of life; shall prosper in proportion... | |
 | Josh Gottheimer - 2003 - 576 pages
...it is in the South that the Negro is given a man's chance in the commercial world, and in nothing is this Exposition more eloquent than in emphasizing...that we shall prosper in proportion as we learn to dignity and glorify common labor, and put brains and skill into the common occupations of life; shall... | |
 | Delores P. Aldridge, Carlene Young - 2000 - 614 pages
...colleges during this period.6 In promoting uplift through submission to whites, Washington proclaimed that our greatest danger is that in the great leap from...of us are to live by the productions of our hands. The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremist... | |
 | Elizabeth L. O'Leary - 2003 - 216 pages
...are' Cast it down in agriculture, mechanics, in commerce, in domestic service, and in the professions we shall prosper in proportion as we learn to dignify and glorify common labour and put brains and skill into the common occupations of life."52 Together, the Progressive... | |
 | Ronald H. Bayor - 2004 - 1032 pages
...it is in the South that the Negro is given a man's chance in the commercial world, and in nothing is this Exposition more eloquent than in emphasizing...prosper in proportion as we learn to dignify and glorify common labor, and put brains and skill into the common occupations of life; shall prosper in proportion... | |
 | Ken I. Kersch - 2004 - 404 pages
...164 Washington reiterated these commitments in his Atlanta Exposition address, in which he declared: Our greatest danger is that in the great leap from...prosper in proportion as we learn to dignify and glorify common labor and put brains and skill into the common occupations of life No State of the Union, 76-7.... | |
 | Richard Wormser - 2004 - 238 pages
...during Reconstruction, the crowd suddenly became very attentive. "Our greatest danger," Washington said, "is that in the great leap from slavery to freedom,...by the productions of our hands and fail to keep in our mind that we shall prosper as we learn to dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom... | |
 | Roy L. Brooks - 2004 - 364 pages
...in America at the turn of the century, preached a philosophy of self-reliance through manual labor: "Our greatest danger is that in the great leap from...the fact that the masses of us are to live by the production of our hands, and fail to keep in mind that we shall prosper in proportion as we learn to... | |
 | Steven C. Tracy - 2004 - 296 pages
...equality) from whites, Negroes should improve their lot by drawing on the resources already at their feet: Our greatest danger is that in the great leap from...the fact that the masses of us are to live by the production of our hands, and fail to keep in mind that we shall prosper in proportion as we learn to... | |
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Our greatest danger is that in the great leap from slavery to freedom we may overlook the fact that the masses of us are to live by the productions of our hands, and fail to keep in mind that we shall prosper in proportion as we learn to dignify and glorify... 
