Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONFew things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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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 shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.
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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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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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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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No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
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…those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much sufering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.
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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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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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Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
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Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
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It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.
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