Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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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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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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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There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.
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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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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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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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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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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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No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
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The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.
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Years ago I resolved that because I had no ancestry myself I would leave a record of which my children would be proud, and which might encourage them to still higher effort
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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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We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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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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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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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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We must reinforce argument with results.
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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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Even where he has the least education and the least encouragement, is incomparably better than the condition and opportunities of the agricultural population in Sicily.
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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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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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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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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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