Booker T. Washington Short Quotes

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Ignorance is more costly to the State than education.

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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

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

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There is no escape — man drags man down, or man lifts man up.

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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.

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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.

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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.

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Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.

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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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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.

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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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The world cares very little what you or I know, but it does care a great deal about what you or I do.

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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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There is no power on earth, that can neutralize the influence of a high, pure, simple and useful life.

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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.

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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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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.

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I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

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A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.

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Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

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Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

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

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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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Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.

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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.

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It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.

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