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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.
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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I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.
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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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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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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
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Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred
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If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.
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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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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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...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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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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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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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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No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
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