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.
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 individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
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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 the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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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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The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
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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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Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.
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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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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 begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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I believe that any man’s life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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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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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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Character is power.
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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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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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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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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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