Character is power.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONNo man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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I believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking.
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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
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In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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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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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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Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.
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I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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