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There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred
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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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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.
Booker T. Washington
Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker... there is no escape... people drag others or lift others up.
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If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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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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Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
Booker T. Washington
We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.
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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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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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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
If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.
Booker T. Washington
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
Booker T. Washington
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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