American - Educator | April 5, 1856 - November 14, 1915
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
Booker T. Washington
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If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.
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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.
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We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
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Character is power.
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There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
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Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
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No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
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To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.
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