No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONWe shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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Remember that everyone’s life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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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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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 you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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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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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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