Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONSuccess always leaves footprints.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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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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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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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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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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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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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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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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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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The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.
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We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.
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Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.
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There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
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