Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONI believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of indispensable value.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.
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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
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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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Years ago I resolved that because I had no ancestry myself I would leave a record of which my children would be proud, and which might encourage them to still higher effort
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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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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The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
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I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
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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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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.
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Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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