Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONNo 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.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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The circumstances that surround a man’s life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.
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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I resolved then that I would permit no man, no matter what his color, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate 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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You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.
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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
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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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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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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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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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