You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse circumstances can take from him.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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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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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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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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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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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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The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
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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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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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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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Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
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