A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONWe must reinforce argument with results.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.
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I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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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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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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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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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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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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