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Do not do that which others can do as well.
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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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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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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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.
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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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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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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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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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Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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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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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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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 world cares very little about what a man or woman knows it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
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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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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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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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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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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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