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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.
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Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up.
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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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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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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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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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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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Remember that everyone's life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
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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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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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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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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
Booker T. Washington
There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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