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Booker T. Washington Quotes


An American educator, author, orator, and political leader.
Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, orator, and political leader. He was the dominant figure in the African American community in the United States from 1890 to 1915. Representative of the last generation of black leaders born in slavery, he spoke on behalf of blacks living in the South. In his last 25 years, Washington maintained his standing because of the sponsorship of powerful whites, substantial support within the black community, his ability to raise educational funds from both groups, and his accommodation to the social realities of the age of Jim Crow segregation.

Here are some famous quotes by Booker T. Washington.

Character not circumstances makes the man.

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If you want to lift yourself up lift up someone else.

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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

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There is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

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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 ever comes to one that is worth having except as a result of hard work.

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There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down the other is pulling up.

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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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The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.

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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.

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Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day.

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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 he has overcome trying to succeed.

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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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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.