You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONOf all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.
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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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Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.
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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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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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I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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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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The circumstances that surround a man’s life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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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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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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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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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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