No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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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Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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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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Character is power.
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We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.
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Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those…who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.
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Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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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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Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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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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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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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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