It is disgraceful for a girl to go about with a soiled apron, or with her clothes pinned together.
Booker T. Washington
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Booker Taliaferro Washington was an American educator, author, and orator. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the primary leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary Black elite.
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It is disgraceful for a man to go about with ragged clothes or with clothes fastened together with pins where buttons ought to be.
We want you to teach by word and action simple, right and honest living.
There are too many people in the world who give their whole lives to grasping at the shadow instead of the substance--grasping at a sham instead of real worth.
We want you to go out into the world and use your influence toward securing these reforms.
The engrossed resolutions were the shadow; the sixty-five cents were all that was left of the substance.
That, it seemed to me, was another case of grasping the shadow instead of the substance.
The title is the shadow; what you say is the substance.
If you are a minister and preach interesting and instructive sermons, people are going to be impressed by what you say and not by the title you bear.
An over-desire for these things shows a shallowness in us which makes us ridiculous.
I must say I thought more of the six who were just plain misters than I did of all the rest, for among the others there were some very hard-looking doctors and professors.
This is the class of people who have got just enough education to make them want everything they see, but who have not got enough to make them able to get what they want unless they go beyond their means to do so.