If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONAt the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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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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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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And that out of this very resistance to wrong, out of the struggle against odds, they have gained strength, self-confidence, and experience which they could not have gained in any other way.
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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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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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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
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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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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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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 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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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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We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
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