I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONIt 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.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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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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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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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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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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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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We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.
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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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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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