Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONRemember that everyone’s life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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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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At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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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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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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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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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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The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
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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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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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Do not do that which others can do as well.
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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your ‘civilization’.
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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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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 I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.
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I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I resolved then that I would permit no man, no matter what his color, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.
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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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