Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONNo one can degrade us except ourselves.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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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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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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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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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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We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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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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You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.
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It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.
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Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.
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