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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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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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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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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.
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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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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help 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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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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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.
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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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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 believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living.
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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
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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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If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.
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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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Character is power.
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