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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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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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I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.
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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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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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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
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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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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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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come
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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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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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Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred
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Success always leaves footprints.
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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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