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More Quotes by Booker T. Washington
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.
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred
I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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.
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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.
