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We must reinforce argument with results.
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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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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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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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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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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Character is power.
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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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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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The circumstances that surround a man's life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.
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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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Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.
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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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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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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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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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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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We don't just borrow words on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
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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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The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
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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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Do not do that which others can do as well.
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