The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONIf you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.
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We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
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Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.
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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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The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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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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No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.
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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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Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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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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