One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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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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We must reinforce argument with results.
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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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Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.
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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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Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.
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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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The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
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