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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONNo 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.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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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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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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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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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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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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