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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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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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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift 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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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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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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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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We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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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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...those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much sufering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.
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Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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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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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 let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
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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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In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.
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The circumstances that surround a man's life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.
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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
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