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Booker T. Washington

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Booker T. Washington

“At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.”

- Booker T. Washington

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Booker T. Washington

“Character is power.”

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Booker T. Washington

“Character, not circumstances, makes the man.”

- Booker T. Washington

Source/Notes: Democracy and Education, speech, Institute of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn NY (1896-09-30)

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Booker T. Washington

“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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Booker T. Washington

“Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”

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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.”

- Booker T. Washington

Source/Notes: Chapter XI: Making Their Beds Before They Could Lie On Them - Up From Slavery (1901)

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

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“If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.”

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“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”

- Booker T. Washington

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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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Booker T. Washington

“Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.”

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

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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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“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.”

- Booker T. Washington

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