If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONOne man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.
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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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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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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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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
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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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In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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Years ago I resolved that because I had no ancestry myself I would leave a record of which my children would be proud, and which might encourage them to still higher effort
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Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
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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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You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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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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I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.
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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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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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