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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.
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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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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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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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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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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I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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We must reinforce argument with results.
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