Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONYou can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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I believe that any man’s life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living.
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I do not believe that one should speak unless, deep down in his heart, he feels convinced that he has a message to deliver.
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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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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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In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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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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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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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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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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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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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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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.
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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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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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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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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists.
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The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse circumstances can take from him.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.
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