The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONNo 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.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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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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The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.
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The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.
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Years ago I resolved that because I had no ancestry myself I would leave a record of which my children would be proud, and which might encourage them to still higher effort
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Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.
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Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.
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From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.
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We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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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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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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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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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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We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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