I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONNo one can degrade us except ourselves.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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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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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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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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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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A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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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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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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We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.
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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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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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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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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 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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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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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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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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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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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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I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
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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 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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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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Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
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