Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe 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.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of indispensable value.
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You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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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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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.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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I 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.
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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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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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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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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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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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Success always leaves footprints.
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You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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