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Booker T Washington
No man, who...
No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he...
No race can...
No race can prosper till it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a...
We shall prosper...
We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you...
I have learned...
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the...
You can't hold...
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
Source: In Correct Quotes...
At the bottom...
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race...
Character, not circumstances,...
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
Source: In
We don't just...
We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious...
Nothing ever comes...
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
I shall never...
I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
Source: In Correct...
No greater injury...
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will...
If you want...
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Source: In And I Quote, by...
The individual who...
The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his...
We must reinforce...
We must reinforce argument with results.
Source: In Famous Black Quotations, ed....
Wherever our life...
Wherever our life touches yours, we help or hinder . . . wherever your life touches ours, you make us stronger or...
Mere connection with...
Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the...
I believe that...
I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do...
The world cares...
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that...
Excellence is to...
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
Source: In
There is no...
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful...