No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThere is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim “”Do not get others to do what you can do yourself.”” My motto on the other hand is; “”Do not do that which others can do as well.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
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I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.
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A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
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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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Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.
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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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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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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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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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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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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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