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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONNo race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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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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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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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 world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
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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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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.
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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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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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