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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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If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.
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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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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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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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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I resolved then that I would permit no man, no matter what his color, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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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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The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
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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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No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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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.)
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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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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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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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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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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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Do not do that which others can do as well.
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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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