A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThere is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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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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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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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 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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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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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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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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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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