No one can degrade us except ourselves.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONA sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.
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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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And that out of this very resistance to wrong, out of the struggle against odds, they have gained strength, self-confidence, and experience which they could not have gained in any other way.
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I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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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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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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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
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Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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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 always leaves footprints.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.
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