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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'.
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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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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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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If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.
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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 nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
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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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I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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Character is power.
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If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.
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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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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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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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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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