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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONFew things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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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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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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We must reinforce argument with results.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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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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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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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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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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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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Do not do that which others can do as well.
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