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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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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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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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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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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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Success always leaves footprints.
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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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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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I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
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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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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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You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.
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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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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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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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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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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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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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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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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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