There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe 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.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.
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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 do not believe that one should speak unless, deep down in his heart, he feels convinced that he has a message to deliver.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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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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Character is power.
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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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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It 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.
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The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
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The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.
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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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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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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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