Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONWe do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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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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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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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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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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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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It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.
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Character is power.
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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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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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Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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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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