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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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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Booker Taliaferro Washington
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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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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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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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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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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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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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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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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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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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Do not do that which others can do as well.
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I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim Do not get others to do what you can do yourself. My motto on the other hand is Do not do that which others can do as well.
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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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No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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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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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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