No one can degrade us except ourselves.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONIf you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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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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…those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much sufering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.
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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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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.
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The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
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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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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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The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.
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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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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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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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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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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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