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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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Do not do that which others can do as well.
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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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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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No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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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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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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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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Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred
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We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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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 have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
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Character is power.
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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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Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
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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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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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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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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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