Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONIf I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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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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Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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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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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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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.
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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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Character is power.
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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.
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I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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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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