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gems from the speeches, addresses, and talks to students of Booker T. Washington ...

Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915)

[book-plate]

II.

III.

The False and the True

Faithful in Small Things

Works for Dishonesty

Never Wore Neckties

Relations with General Armstrong

Bad Associations

The Curse of the Race

Slavery Degraded Labor

Non-Essentials

The Head Cook

What the Negro may Own

Reciprocity

Time the Sovereign Healer

Must be Retrained

What will the Student Do?

Church-Membership

Peculiar Religious Notions

Improved Material Condition

Religion and Worldly Substance

A Useful Citizen

Lessons from a Centennial

Common-Sense Ideas

Self-Respect in Ownership

Preparing to Die

Strength and Weakness

What Tuskegee Students Learn

Lack of Preparation

What we never Reach

The Honest Foundation

"The Faithful Servant"

From Slavery to Freedom

Home Influence

What the Negro can Have

Negro Laborer Crustworthy

The Christ-like Workers

General Armstrong's Personality

"The Wages of Sin"

Their Moses

The Most Patient Race

"Lincoln, the Emancipator"

A Message to Harvard

"Bursting up"

Upright Character

The Negro and the Mule

Way to Test a Man's Sincerity

The Heroic and Grand

Hold Fast to Opportunities

An Honest Ballot

Sick and Diseased

A Self-Supporting Race

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VI.

VII.

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"Bursting up"

We are crawling up, working up, yea,
bursting up, often through oppression, unjust

discrimination, and prejudice; but through
them all we are coming up, and with the
proper habits, intelligence, and property.

Alumni Dinner (Harvard University).