Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONWe shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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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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Character is power.
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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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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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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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It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.
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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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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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