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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONI shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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The circumstances that surround a man’s life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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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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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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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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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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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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Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.
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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 have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
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I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I resolved then that I would permit no man, no matter what his color, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.
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There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.
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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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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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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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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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Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.
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No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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