The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse circumstances can take from him.
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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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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We must reinforce argument with results.
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Remember that everyone’s life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
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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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You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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In 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.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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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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There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.
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No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
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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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Character is power.
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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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The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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