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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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More Quotes by Booker T. Washington
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.
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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.
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come
An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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.
