Booker T. Washington
American Black Leader and Educator
Lived from: 1856 - 1915
Category: Politics | Writers (Contemporary) Country: 
United States
Born: 5 april 1856 Died: 14 november 1915
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I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high water mark of pure and useful living.
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I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
Up From Slavery (1901)― Booker T. Washington -
I will not permit any man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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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.
Up From Slavery (1901)― Booker T. Washington -
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
The Story of My Life and Work, vol. I (1900) ch. XV― Booker T. Washington -
In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
Up From Slavery (1901) Ch. XIV: The Atlanta Exposition Address― Booker T. Washington -
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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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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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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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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Opportunity is like a bald-headed man with only a patch of hair right in front. You have to grab that hair, grasp the opportunity while it's confronting you, else you'll be grasping a slick bald head.
Speech at the Carrie Tuggle Institute, Birmingham (date unknown) [6]― Booker T. Washington -
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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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.
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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 last I heard of the young man in question, he was trying to eke out a miserable existence as a book agent while he was looking about for a position somewhere with the Government as a janitor or for some other equally humble occupation.
― Booker T. Washington
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