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.
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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I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of indispensable value.
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Character is power.
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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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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
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No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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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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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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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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We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.
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The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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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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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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