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Black-belt diamonds;

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

Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915)

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Physical and Moral Courage

Hurts Whites more than Blacks

Lowering the Standard

Easy to Tear down

"Time and Tide Wait for no Man"

"You must do Something"

"Lives of Great Men all Remind us"

From Dairy to Congress

Good School-Teachers and Money

From One Slavery to Another

"We Know our Rights"

Treasures of Nature

"Excuses instead of Service"

Genius of Success

Self-Measurement

Singleness of Purpose

Implements of the Trade

Reaching the Lowest

World Respects Self-Confidence

Faulty Education

Child Father to the Man

Supreme Unselfishness

Influence of Negro Minister

Head and Hand Education

What Institutions should Teach

Elements of Power

Safety in Employment

Sowing and Reaping

More Costly

Present Conditions

Leap from Slavery to Freedom

Fitness as the Test

The Highest Civilization

"What Happened?"

A National Evil

"Worth Makes the Man"

Fruits of his Labors

The Negro's Rights

Why the South is Bound to a Body of Death

Social Equality

Right Thing to be Done

What would Mother Say?

Lifting up our Fellows

The White South's Needs

Industrial Education

Competing with the World

Unostentatious Charity

The Negro's Guiding Star

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More Costly

Ignorance is more costly to any State than
education. Constitutional Convention (Louisiana).