The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe 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.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
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The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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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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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
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Even where he has the least education and the least encouragement, is incomparably better than the condition and opportunities of the agricultural population in Sicily.
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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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In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.
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The circumstances that surround a man’s life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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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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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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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.
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