At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONLet our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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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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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You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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Do not do that which others can do as well.
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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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Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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Even where he has the least education and the least encouragement, is incomparably better than the condition and opportunities of the agricultural population in Sicily.
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We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.
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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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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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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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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.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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