Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThere 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.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your ‘civilization’.
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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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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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Years ago I resolved that because I had no ancestry myself I would leave a record of which my children would be proud, and which might encourage them to still higher effort
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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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I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim “”Do not get others to do what you can do yourself.”” My motto on the other hand is; “”Do not do that which others can do as well.
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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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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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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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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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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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You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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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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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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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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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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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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Character is power.
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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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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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