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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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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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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I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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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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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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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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In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside world.
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It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.
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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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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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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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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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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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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.
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