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More Quotes by Booker T. Washington
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate 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.
Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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.
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.
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred
Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
