In 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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONIgnorance is more costly to any State than education.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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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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We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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Character is power.
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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 world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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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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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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Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.
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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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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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I believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking.
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