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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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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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I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
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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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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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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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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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There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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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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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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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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Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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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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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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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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Think about it: we went into slavery pagans we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property we came out American citizens. We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists we came out with the American ballot in our hands.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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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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