No one can degrade us except ourselves.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONWe 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.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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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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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I resolved then that I would permit no man, no matter what his color, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.
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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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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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I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
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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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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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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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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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The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.
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The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
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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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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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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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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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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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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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