Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThere is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens.
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You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.
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We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
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In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.
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No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
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I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come.
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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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I believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking.
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I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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