Booker T. Washington - People Quotes

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Cast down your bucket where you are—cast it down in making friends in every manly way of the people of all races by whom we are surrounded.

Booker T. Washington
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

Booker T. Washington
The slave system on our place, in large measure, took the spirit of self-reliance and self-help out of the white people.

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In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists. Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.

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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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My experience is that people who call themselves "The Intellectuals" understand theories, but they do not understand things.

Booker T. Washington
There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.

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I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.

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We are led into saying that there is no difference between us and other people. We must admit that there is a difference produced by the unequal opportunities. To argue otherwise is to discredit the effects of slavery.

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No race or people ever got upon its feet without severe and constant struggle, often in the face of the greatest discouragement.

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