Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONAn ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.
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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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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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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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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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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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Do not do that which others can do as well.
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Character is power.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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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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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 truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.
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