The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
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Remember that everyone’s life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
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Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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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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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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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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The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your ‘civilization’.
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Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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I believe that any man’s life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living.
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No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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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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In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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