There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe 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.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.
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In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.
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The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.
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We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.
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To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say ‘Cast down your bucket where you are.’
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I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I resolved then that I would permit no man, no matter what his color, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.
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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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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 happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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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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