There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONA race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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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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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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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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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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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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Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.
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No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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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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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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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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