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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThink about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
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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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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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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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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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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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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.
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The 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.
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To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say ‘Cast down your bucket where you are.’
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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
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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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Success always leaves footprints.
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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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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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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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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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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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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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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