Remember that everyone’s life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONFrom 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.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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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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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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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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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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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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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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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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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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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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Success always leaves footprints.
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No 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.
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Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.
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