I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONAn inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
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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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Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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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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No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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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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Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.
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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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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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It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.
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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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