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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.
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More Quotes by Booker T. Washington
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.
Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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.
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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.
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.
I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
