I read two new books in the last few weeks:
Up From Slavery by Booker T Washington: One of the most powerful and poignant books I have read. His ability to compassionately and eloquently bring differing people together to build Tuskegee University is aspiring for our current times. He understood the importance of education, including vocational education, for everyone, including African-Americans. It is an uplifting and important read. Made me understood how little I know.
Here are a few quotes I found particularly relevant and moving:
That any man, regardless of color, will be recognized and rewarded just in proportion as he learns to do something well-learns to do it better than anyone else-however humble the thing might be. p. 280
When I can leave my office in time so that I can spend 30 or 40 minutes in spading the ground, in planting seeds, in digging about the plants, I feel that I am contact with something that is giving me strength for the many duties and hard places that await me out in the big world. p. 265
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work. p. 188
I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. p. 165
Time and again he said to me [his mentor General Armstrong]hat it was not only the duty of the country to assist in elevating the Negro, but the poor white man as well. p. 294
Camino Island by John Grisham is another quick romp. More detective plot than the usual law or court that he writes about.
Up From Slavery by Booker T Washington: One of the most powerful and poignant books I have read. His ability to compassionately and eloquently bring differing people together to build Tuskegee University is aspiring for our current times. He understood the importance of education, including vocational education, for everyone, including African-Americans. It is an uplifting and important read. Made me understood how little I know.
Here are a few quotes I found particularly relevant and moving:
That any man, regardless of color, will be recognized and rewarded just in proportion as he learns to do something well-learns to do it better than anyone else-however humble the thing might be. p. 280
When I can leave my office in time so that I can spend 30 or 40 minutes in spading the ground, in planting seeds, in digging about the plants, I feel that I am contact with something that is giving me strength for the many duties and hard places that await me out in the big world. p. 265
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work. p. 188
I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. p. 165
Time and again he said to me [his mentor General Armstrong]hat it was not only the duty of the country to assist in elevating the Negro, but the poor white man as well. p. 294
Camino Island by John Grisham is another quick romp. More detective plot than the usual law or court that he writes about.
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