Booker T. Washington Quotes

• In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

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• No race can prosper until it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. It is at the bottom of life we must begin, and not at the top.

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• Success always leaves footprints.

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• Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.

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• I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

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• Nothing worth doing is ever easy.

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• You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.

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  Tags in Brotherhood, Hold

• We must reinforce argument with results.

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• We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

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  Tags in English, Unconscious, Language

• 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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  Tags in Prejudice, Color

• To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

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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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• Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

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  Tags in Small Things, Things and Little Things, Attention

• One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

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• No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

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  Tags in Dignity, Field, Pride

• 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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  Tags in Intellectual, War, Reward

• 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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  Tags in Injury, Done

• If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

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• I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

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  Tags in Shall, Hate

• I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

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  Tags in Obstacles, Trying

Booker T. Washington (36)

Birth:	5th April, 1865
Death:	14th November, 1915
Nationality:	African, American
Profession:	Author, Politician

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