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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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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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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The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your 'civilization'.
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Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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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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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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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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Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
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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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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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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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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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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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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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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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Character is power.
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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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