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More Quotes by Booker T. Washington
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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.
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.
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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.
Never get to the point where you will be ashamed to ask anybody for information. The ignorant man will always be ignorant if he fears that by asking another for information he will display ignorance. Better once display your ignorance of a certain subject than always know nothing of it.
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
