Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONWe must reinforce argument with results.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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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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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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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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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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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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You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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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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You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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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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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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I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of indispensable value.
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