It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONWe all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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Success always leaves footprints.
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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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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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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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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.
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The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your ‘civilization’.
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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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No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your ‘civilization’.
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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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In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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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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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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The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
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No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
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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 thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.
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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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Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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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.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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