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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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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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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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You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.
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Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.
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Think about it: we went into slavery pagans we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property we came out American citizens. We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists we came out with the American ballot in our hands.
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No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
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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 inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.
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There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Too often the educational value of doing well what is done, however little, is overlooked. One thing well done prepares the mind to do the next thing better. Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.
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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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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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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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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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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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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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