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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.
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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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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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.
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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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Success always leaves footprints.
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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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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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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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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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