 | Cynthia Griggs Fleming - 2004 - 388 pages
...was convinced that industrial education was the only sure means to black advancement. As he put it, "Our greatest danger is that in the great leap from slavery to freedom we may overlook the fact that we shall prosper in proportion as we learn to dignify and glorify common labor. No race can prosper... | |
 | Tamara L. Brown, Gregory Parks, Clarenda M. Phillips - 2005 - 546 pages
...and political rights, he publicly denied the usefulness of classical liberal arts education, saying: Our greatest danger is that in the great leap from...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... | |
 | Lucius T. Outlaw - 2005 - 244 pages
...it down in making friends, in every manly way, of the people of all races by whom we are surrounded. 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; shall prosper in proportion... | |
 | James C. Cobb - 2005 - 416 pages
...accept their initial status at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder and, beyond that, acknowledge "the fact that the masses of us are to live by the production of our hands" was music to the ears of New South proponents. The same was true of his reassurance... | |
 | Booker T. Washington - 2006 - 454 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... | |
 | Booker T. Washington - 2006 - 322 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... | |
 | Booker T. Washington - 2006 - 270 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... | |
 | Donald Cunnigen, Myrtle Gonza Glascoe, Rutledge M. Dennis - 2005 - 251 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...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... | |
 | Elisabeth Israels Perry, Karen Manners Smith - 2006 - 433 pages
...respectability without agitating for social equality. "Our greatest danger," Washington said in the speech, "is that in the great leap from slavery to freedom...of us are to live by the productions of our hands No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a... | |
 | Nathan Olson - 2006 - 36 pages
...African Americans needed to learn job skills to be successful. > I : : 1 "> Our greatest danger \e that in the great leap from slavery to freedom we may overlook the fact that all of us are to live by the productions of our hands. V '-. Washington had established the Tuskegee... | |
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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... 
