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You may fill your heads with k...

You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.

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In order to be successful in a...

In order to be successful in any undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause. In proportion as one loses himself in this way, in the same degree does he get the highest happiness out of his work.

Booker Washington 160 quotes

The actual sight of a first-cl...

The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.

Booker Washington 160 quotes

Of all forms of slavery there ...

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.

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A sure way for one to lift him...

A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.

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I believe that one always does...

I believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking. I do not believe that one should speak unless, deep down in his heart, he feels convinced that he has a message to deliver.

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No race that has anything to c...

No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.

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You go to school, you study ab...

You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.

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In any country, regardless of ...

In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists. Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.

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From some things that I have s...

From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.

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Decide to be your best. In the...

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.

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I pity from the bottom of my h...

I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.

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Men may make laws to hinder an...

Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.

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My whole life has largely been...

My whole life has largely been one of surprises.

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Progress, progress is the law ...

Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.

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Those who have accomplished th...

Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those...who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.

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...those who are guilty of suc...

...those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much sufering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.

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Think about it: we went into s...

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...

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You must understand the troubl...

You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.

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Leaders have devoted themselve...

Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems
that political independence disappears without economic independence
that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.

Booker Washington 160 quotes

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