Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONIn all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your ‘civilization’.
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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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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.
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Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color.
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No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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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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The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate 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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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.
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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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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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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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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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…those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much sufering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.
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Character is power.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.
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