The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONCharacter is power.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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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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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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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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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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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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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
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Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
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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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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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