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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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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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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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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Character is power.
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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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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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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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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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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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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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If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.
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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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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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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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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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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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We don't just borrow words on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
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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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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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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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