Success always leaves footprints.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONIn 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.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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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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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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I do not believe that one should speak unless, deep down in his heart, he feels convinced that he has a message to deliver.
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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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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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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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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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Remember that everyone’s life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
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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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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 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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We must reinforce argument with results.
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