There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONAn inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.
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I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim “”Do not get others to do what you can do yourself.”” My motto on the other hand is; “”Do not do that which others can do as well.
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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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Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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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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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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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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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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We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
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