My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONI pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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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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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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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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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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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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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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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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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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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
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Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.
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The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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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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Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.
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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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We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
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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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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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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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