Booker T. Washington Quotes - Page 4

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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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  Success, Attention, Life Is

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• A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.

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  Way, Helping, Lifts

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• I believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking. I do not believe that one should speak unless, deep down in his heart, he feels convinced that he has a message to deliver.

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  Believe, Heart, Doe

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “The Booker T. Washington Reader”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.

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  Strong, Men, Giving

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “The Booker T. Washington Reader”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.

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  Opportunity, Grievance

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

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  Letting Go, Stay Strong, Men

  "The Great Quotations" edited by George Seldes, (p. 641), 1971.

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• 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.

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  Hands, Kwanzaa, Black History

  "Papers: The Autobiographical Writings".

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• In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.

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  Helping Others, Volunteer, Helping

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “Character Building”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Life, Success, Hope

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• To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say 'Cast down your bucket where you are.'

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  Men, White, Race

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “The Booker T. Washington Reader”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.

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  Running, Race, Differences

  W. E. B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington (2012). “Three African-American Classics: Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”, p.137, Courier Corporation

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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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  Book, People, Soul

  W. E. B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington (2012). “Three African-American Classics: Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”, p.111, Courier Corporation

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• Too often the educational value of doing well what is done, however little, is overlooked. One thing well done prepares the mind to do the next thing better. Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.

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  Education, Mind, Done

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• I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.

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  Positive, Hate, Positivity

  Anson Phelps Stokes, Booker T. Washington (1931). “Tuskegee Institute the First Fifty Years: Being the Founder's Day Historical Adress Delivered April 14, 1931, at the Semi-centennial of the Institute's Founding”

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• Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.

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  Men, Law, Growth

  John William Gibson, William Henry Crogman, Booker T. Washington, Fannie Barrier Williams (1902). “Progress of a race: or, The remarkable advancement of the American Negro from the bondage of slavery, ignorance and poverty to the freedom of citizenship, intelligence, affluence, honor and trust”

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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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  Inspirational Life, Humanity, Helpful

  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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• You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.

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  Men, Helping, Trouble

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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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  Life, Karma, Humility

  Booker T. Washington (2009). “Up from Slavery: An Autobiography”, p.297, The Floating Press

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• The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your 'civilization'.

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  Civilization, Study, Problem

  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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• Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.

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  Two, Might, Habit

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “A Will to Be Free”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Brother, Men, Color

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

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  Integrity, Race, Individual

  Booker T. Washington, Louis R. Harlan (1976). “The Booker T. Washington Papers: 1899-1900”, p.358, University of Illinois Press

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• I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I resolved then that I would permit no man, no matter what his color, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

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  Hate, Men, Color

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• If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.

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  Men, Overcoming, Want

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• I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim ""Do not get others to do what you can do yourself."" My motto on the other hand is; ""Do not do that which others can do as well.

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  Business, Thinking, Hands

  Booker T. Washington (2006). “Up from Slavery: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.240, ReadHowYouWant.com

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