You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONWe 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.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.
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Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
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The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
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Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.
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Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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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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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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Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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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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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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It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.
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