The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.
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I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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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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We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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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.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.
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