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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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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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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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There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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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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I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I resolved then that I would permit no man, no matter what his color, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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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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You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
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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.
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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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If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.
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We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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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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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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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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We must reinforce argument with results.
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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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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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