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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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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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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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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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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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And that out of this very resistance to wrong, out of the struggle against odds, they have gained strength, self-confidence, and experience which they could not have gained in any other way.
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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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Do not do that which others can do as well.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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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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No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.
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If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.
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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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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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