An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThere are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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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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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.
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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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I believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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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 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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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
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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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Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens.
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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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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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