At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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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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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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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 all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.
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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 longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.
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We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
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We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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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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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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