We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONI 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.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim “”Do not get others to do what you can do yourself.”” My motto on the other hand is; “”Do not do that which others can do as well.
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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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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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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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Character is power.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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