No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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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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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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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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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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Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
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No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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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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The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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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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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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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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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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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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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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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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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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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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