.....One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
..........— Booker T(aliaferro) Washington (1856-1915), African-American leader. "An Address on Abraham Lincoln before the Republican Club of New York City" (1909-02-12).
The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol. 10: 1909-1911, University of Illinois Press.