An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONYou may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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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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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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Remember that everyone’s life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
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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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The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your ‘civilization’.
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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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I believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking.
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No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
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You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.
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If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.
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Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
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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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We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists.
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And 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.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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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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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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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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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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