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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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Booker Taliaferro Washington
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Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up.
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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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If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.
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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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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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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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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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Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
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The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
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There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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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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