Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONFrom some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
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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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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.
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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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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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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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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Character is power.
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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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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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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 race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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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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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Character is power.
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If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.
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Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.
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You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of indispensable value.
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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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