You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONWe must reinforce argument with results.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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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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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
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If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.
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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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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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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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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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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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Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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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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