Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONNo one can degrade us except ourselves.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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Character is power.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim “”Do not get others to do what you can do yourself.”” My motto on the other hand is; “”Do not do that which others can do as well.
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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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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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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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At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
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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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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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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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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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