No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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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The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.
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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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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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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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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.
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Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.
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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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