A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe 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.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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…those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much sufering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.
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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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In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists.
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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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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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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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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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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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The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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