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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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Dying for Others

Educated Leaders

To Conquer Prejudice

Will not Want for Friends

Pippins and Crab-Apples

Higher Education

He Sticks to his Text

Pure and Useful Lives

Seen and Unseen

Dignity of Labor

The Mortgage System

Self-Examination

Superficial and Ornamental

Ill-Will and hatred

How to Use Education

Domestic Economy

Neglecting Opportunity

Don't be too Modest

Afraid of Riches

Civil Rights Bills

Magnifying Evil Doing

Starting from the Bottom

"A Man for a' That"

Demagogues and Despots

Material and Industrial Condition

"The Afro-American"

Practical Religion

Educate the Mothers

Influence of Association

What would Jefferson Davis Think?

Instrument and End

Have a Purpose in Life

The Mortgage Evil

Common-Sense View

Condition of Misery

The Producer and Consumer

Science of Scrubbing

Equality of Opportunity

Iron Law of progress

But They were so Engaged

Greater "Parliament of Man"

The Negro can Afford It

Question for Students

A Corrupt Ballot

From Fourteen to Eight Million

What Ignorance Craves

Special Invitation

The Quality of Sacrifice

Spread Sunshine

What the North can Do

"By this Sign we Conquer"

The Hand and its Fingers

It Can't be Done

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Don't be too Modest

Never get to the point where you will be
ashamed to ask anybody for information. The
ignorant man will always be ignorant if he fears

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that by asking another for information he will
display ignorance. Better once display your
ignorance of a certain subject than always
know nothing of it.

Sunday Evening Tuskegee Talks.