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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONWe shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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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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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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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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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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Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.
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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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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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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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Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.
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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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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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Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens.
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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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