We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe 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.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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Success always leaves footprints.
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If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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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 power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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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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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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