I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of indispensable value.
Each one should remember there is a chance for him. - Booker T. Washington
Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
- Booker T. Washington
I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. - Booker T. Washington
I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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… - Booker T. Washington
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…
Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highly of them, when instead they should try to get their people to think more highly of themse… - Booker T. Washington
Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highly of them, when instead they should try to get their people to think more highly of themse…
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 overco… - Booker T. Washington
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 overco…
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. - Booker T. Washington
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. - Booker T. Washington
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it. - Booker T. Washington
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only … - Booker T. Washington
There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only …
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