Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
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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Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.
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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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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 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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It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.
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At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
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I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.
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