There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONIn 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.
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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No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.
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I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
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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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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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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate 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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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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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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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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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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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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Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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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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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.
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There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
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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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The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.
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Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
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