No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONYou measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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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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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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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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No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.
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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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From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.
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The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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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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Success always leaves footprints.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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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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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize 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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We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.
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Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
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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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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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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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Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens.
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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
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