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Booker T Washington Inspirational Quotes (76)

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No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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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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Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)
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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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I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.
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The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.
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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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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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A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
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Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
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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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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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Think about it: we went into slavery pagans we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property we came out American citizens. We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists we came out with the American ballot in our hands.
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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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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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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 are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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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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