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You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
Booker T. Washington
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Booker T. Washington
Age: 59 †
Born: 1856
Born: April 5
Died: 1915
Died: November 14
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Booker Taliaferro Washington
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Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
Booker T. Washington
No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
Booker T. Washington
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.
Booker T. Washington
If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
Booker T. Washington
A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
Booker T. Washington
I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim Do not get others to do what you can do yourself. My motto on the other hand is Do not do that which others can do as well.
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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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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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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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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
Booker T. Washington
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come
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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
Booker T. Washington
Character is power.
Booker T. Washington
Do not do that which others can do as well.
Booker T. Washington
