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Booker T. Washington
Age: 59 †
Born: 1856
Born: April 5
Died: 1915
Died: November 14
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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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Too often the educational value of doing well what is done, however little, is overlooked. One thing well done prepares the mind to do the next thing better. 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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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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Do not do that which others can do as well.
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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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The Negro is not the man farthest down. The condition of the coloured farmer in the most backward parts of the Southern States of America, 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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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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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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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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Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up.
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No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
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I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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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 escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
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In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside world.
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