One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONSome of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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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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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.
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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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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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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
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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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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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