The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONOne man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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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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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.
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In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.
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There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.
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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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Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those…who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.
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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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Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color.
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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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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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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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At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
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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 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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Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.
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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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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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