At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONWe must reinforce argument with results.
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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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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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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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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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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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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We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.
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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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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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The circumstances that surround a man’s life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.
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Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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I believe that any man’s life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living.
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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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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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