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More Quotes by Booker T. Washington
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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.
Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
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.
An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
