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The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
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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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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Do not do that which others can do as well.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
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If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.
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I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim Do not get others to do what you can do yourself. My motto on the other hand is Do not do that which others can do as well.
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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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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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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.
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The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your 'civilization'.
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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.
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