We must reinforce argument with results.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONIt is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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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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The circumstances that surround a man’s life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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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 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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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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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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