In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONLay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim “”Do not get others to do what you can do yourself.”” My motto on the other hand is; “”Do not do that which others can do as well.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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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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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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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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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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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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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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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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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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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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