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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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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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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No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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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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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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A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
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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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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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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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...those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much sufering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.
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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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The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
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Character is power.
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Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highly of them, when instead they should try to get their people to think more highly of themselves. It's wonderful when the people believe in their leader. It's more wonderful when the leader believes in their people! You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.
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Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
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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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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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