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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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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.
Booker T. Washington
Character is power.
Booker T. Washington
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.
Booker T. Washington
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.
Booker T. Washington
Success always leaves footprints.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
Booker T. Washington
The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.
Booker T. Washington
You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
Booker T. Washington
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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Remember that everyone's life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
Booker T. Washington
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.
Booker T. Washington
You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.
Booker T. Washington
We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
Booker T. Washington
Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
Booker T. Washington
It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.
Booker T. Washington
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
Booker T. Washington
Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
Booker T. Washington
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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