…those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much sufering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONWhenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.
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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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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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In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.
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I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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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 race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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