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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONLet our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.
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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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No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.
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Each one should remember there is a chance for 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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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
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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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Success always leaves footprints.
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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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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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