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Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making 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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Booker Taliaferro Washington
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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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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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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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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.
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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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The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.
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I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.
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We don't just borrow words on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
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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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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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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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