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The circumstances that surround a man's life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.
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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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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Success always leaves footprints.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred
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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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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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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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If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.
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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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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 let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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Character is power.
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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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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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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.
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