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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.
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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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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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.
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Do not do that which others can do as well.
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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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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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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 world cares very little about what a man or woman knows it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
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Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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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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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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Remember that everyone's life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
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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 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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The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.
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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.
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There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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