We must reinforce argument with results.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONAn inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
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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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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.
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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.
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You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.
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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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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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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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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
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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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Character is power.
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In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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