Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
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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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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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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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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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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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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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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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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Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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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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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 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 longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.
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