Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONNo race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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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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Character is power.
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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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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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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.
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We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
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I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.
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I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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Character is power.
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I do not believe that one should speak unless, deep down in his heart, he feels convinced that he has a message to deliver.
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Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
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Do not do that which others can do as well.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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