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. WASHINGTONIgnorance is more costly to any State than education.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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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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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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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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We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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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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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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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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At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
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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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