You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
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Booker T. WashingtonBooker T. Washington In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists.
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Booker T. WashingtonBooker T. Washington 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.
Booker T. WashingtonBooker T. Washington Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
Booker T. WashingtonBooker T. Washington 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’.
Booker T. WashingtonBooker T. Washington Even where he has the least education and the least encouragement, is incomparably better than the condition and opportunities of the agricultural population in Sicily.
Booker T. WashingtonBooker T. Washington 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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