Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONWe all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Do not do that which others can do as well.
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Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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It 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.
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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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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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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 is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come.
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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.
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The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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I 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.
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