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If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.
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 happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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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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We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.
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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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You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.
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I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I resolved then that I would permit no man, no matter what his color, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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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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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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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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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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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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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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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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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
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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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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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