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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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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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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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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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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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You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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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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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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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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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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I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living.
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Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.
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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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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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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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