One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONNo race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.
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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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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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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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Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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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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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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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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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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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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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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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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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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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.
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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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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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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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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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I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.
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From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.
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