"There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down,…"

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

components.quote_sticky.metadata

components.related.reasons.author

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

— Booker T. Washington

components.related.reasons.author

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

— Booker T. Washington

components.related.reasons.author

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

— Booker T. Washington