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Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred
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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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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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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Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highly of them, when instead they should try to get their people to think more highly of themselves. It's wonderful when the people believe in their leader. It's more wonderful when the leader believes in their people! You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
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From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.
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The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.
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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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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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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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You can't hold a man down without staying down with 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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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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Character is power.
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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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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
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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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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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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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