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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONSuccess always leaves footprints.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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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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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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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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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
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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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The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse circumstances can take from him.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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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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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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