Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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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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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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No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.
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We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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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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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
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We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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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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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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I do not believe that one should speak unless, deep down in his heart, he feels convinced that he has a message to deliver.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.
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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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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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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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You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.
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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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Do not do that which others can do as well.
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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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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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