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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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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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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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Do not do that which others can do as well.
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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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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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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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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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If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.
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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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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.
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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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Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
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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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