We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONLet our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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…those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much sufering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.
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Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
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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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Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.
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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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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say ‘Cast down your bucket where you are.’
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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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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