An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONEach one should remember there is a chance for him.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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Success always leaves footprints.
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Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
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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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I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I resolved then that I would permit no man, no matter what his color, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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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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No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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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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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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In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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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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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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I do not believe that one should speak unless, deep down in his heart, he feels convinced that he has a message to deliver.
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I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.
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Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.
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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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A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
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No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.
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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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Do not do that which others can do as well.
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