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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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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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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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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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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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 Negro is not the man farthest down. The condition of the coloured farmer in the most backward parts of the Southern States of America, even where he has the least education and the least encouragement, is incomparably better than the condition and opportunities of the agricultural population in Sicily.
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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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Success always leaves footprints.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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