Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONAnd that out of this very resistance to wrong, out of the struggle against odds, they have gained strength, self-confidence, and experience which they could not have gained in any other way.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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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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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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Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those…who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.
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The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
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We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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Do not do that which others can do as well.
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I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
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I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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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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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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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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