Booker T. Washington Quotes

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• 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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  Jobs, Race, Class

  Booker T. Washington (1911). “My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience”

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• There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.

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  Get Well, Mean, Race

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “The Booker T. Washington Reader”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Booker T. Washington (1901). “An Autobiography: The Story of My Life and Work, the Original Brought Up-to-date with Over Half a Hundred Full Page Photo and Halftone Engravings and Drawings by Frank Beard”

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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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  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Booker T. Washington (2015). “Up from Slavery: Top Biography”, p.109, 谷月社

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• Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.

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  Determination, Waiting

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• Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highly of them, when instead they should try to get their people to think more highly of themselves. It's wonderful when the people believe in their leader. It's more wonderful when the leader believes in their people! You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

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  Believe, Men, Thinking

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

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

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  Hate, Men, Race

  Booker T. Washington, Louis R. Harlan (1981). “The Booker T. Washington Papers”, p.35, University of Illinois Press

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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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  Positive, Hate, Angel

  "Up From Slavery" by Booker T. Washington, (Chapter XI), 1901.

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• Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

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  Art, Caring, Volunteer

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• Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Obstacles

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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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  Positive, Strength, Success

  Booker T. Washington (1904*). “Address of Booker T. Washington, Principal of the Tuskegee Normal & Industrial Institute: Before the National Educational Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 30, 1904”

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• An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.

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  Progress, Yards, Inches

  "The Booker T. Washington. Papers".

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• Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.

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  Character, Men, Skills

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• Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens. We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.

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  Christian, Thinking, Hands

  Booker T. Washington (1972). “Papers: The Autobiographical Writings”, p.62, University of Illinois Press

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• Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.

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  Running, Long, World

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• Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred

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  Men, Hatred, African American

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• Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

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  Character, Men, Circumstances

  "Democracy and Education". Booker T. Washington's Speech at Institute of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn NY, September 30, 1896.

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

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  Inspirational, Leadership, Athlete

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• Character is power.

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  Character

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• Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.

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  Hurt, Doe, Grudge

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• You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.

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  Heart, Character, Hands

  Booker T. Washington, Victoria Earle Matthews (1898). “Black-belt Diamonds: Gems from the Speeches, Addresses, and Talks to Students of Booker T. Washington ...”

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• Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.

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  Knowing, Enough, Where You Are

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• I never liked the atmosphere of Washington . I early saw that it was impossible to build up a race of which the leaders were spending most of their time, thought and energy in trying to get into office, or in trying to stay there after they were in.

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  Race, Office, Empathy

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “The Booker T. Washington Reader”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

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  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

  Booker T. Washington (2012). “Up from Slavery”, p.91, Courier Corporation

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