Booker T. Washington Quotes

Booker T. Washington (32)

Birth:	5th April, 1865
Death:	14th November, 1915
Nationality:	African, American
Profession:	Author, Politician

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• Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

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• I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

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  If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

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• Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

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• We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

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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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• There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

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  Tags in Injustice, Values, Strength

• If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

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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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• 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 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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• Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

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• At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

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• To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

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• You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.

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• One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

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• 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 be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

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• I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

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  Tags in Shall, Hate

• 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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• Character is power.

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