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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONProgress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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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No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.
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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
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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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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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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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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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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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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
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Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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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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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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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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