Two Booker T. Washington Agrarian Quotes

I just came across these Booker T. Washington quotes on a blogpost of a few days ago from Carmon.

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

“All races that have reached success and have influenced the world for righteousness have laid their foundation at one stage of their career in the intelligent and successful cultivation of the soil ; that is, have begun their free life by coming into contact with earth and wood and stone and minerals. Any people that begins on a natural foundation of this kind, rises slowly but naturally and gradually in the world.”

Mary Susan