Even where he has the least education and the least encouragement, is incomparably better than the condition and opportunities of the agricultural population in Sicily.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONI 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.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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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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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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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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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
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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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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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Do not do that which others can do as well.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.
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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens.
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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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Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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