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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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Booker Taliaferro Washington
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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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There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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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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You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.
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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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I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.
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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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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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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.
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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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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
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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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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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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
Booker T. Washington
No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
Booker T. Washington
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.
Booker T. Washington
Do not do that which others can do as well.
Booker T. Washington
