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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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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 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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Success always leaves footprints.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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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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Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred
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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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I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.
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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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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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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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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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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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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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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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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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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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