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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
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Booker T. Washington
Age: 59 †
Born: 1856
Born: April 5
Died: 1915
Died: November 14
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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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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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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highly of them, when instead they should try to get their people to think more highly of themselves. It's wonderful when the people believe in their leader. It's more wonderful when the leader believes in their people! You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
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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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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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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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Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker... there is no escape... people drag others or lift others up.
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The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
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If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.
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...those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much sufering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.
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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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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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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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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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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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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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Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred
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The 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.
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