The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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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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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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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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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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We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.
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The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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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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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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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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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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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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The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
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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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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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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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It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.
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The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.
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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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