If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONCharacter, not circumstances, makes the man.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim “”Do not get others to do what you can do yourself.”” My motto on the other hand is; “”Do not do that which others can do as well.
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The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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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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In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.
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In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.
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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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In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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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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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 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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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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