An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONAn ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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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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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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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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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.
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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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