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More Quotes by Booker T. Washington
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
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred
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.
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.
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.
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
