Character is power.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
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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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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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Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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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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Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
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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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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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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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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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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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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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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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I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of indispensable value.
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