"Let us keep before us the fact that,……" — Booker T. Washington
"Let us keep before us the fact that, almost without exception, every race or nation that has ever got upon its feet has done so through struggle and trial and persecution; and that out of this very resistance to wrong, out of the struggle against odds, they have gained strength, self-confidence, and experience which they could not have gained in any other way."
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102 Quotes by Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington has 102 quotes on this site.
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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as…
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In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous…
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Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception…
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The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in…
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In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the…
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit…
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it…
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Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker... there is no escape... people drag others or lift…
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Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous…
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Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception…
— Booker T. Washington
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The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.
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The true but rare runner's high is a zone that we enter when everything seems to click perfectly, when time…
— Amby Burfoot
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Arbitrary rule has its basis, not in the strength of the state or the chief, but in the moral weakness…
— Friedrich Ratzel
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The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well-off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in…
— Gunnar Myrdal
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...Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people against whom gun bans are aimed. Almost without exception, murderers are extreme…
— Don Kates
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Almost without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor,…
— Pope Francis
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By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour and they…
— David Ricardo
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All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.
— Helen Vendler
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Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in the legislative body, almost without…
— Paul Sarbanes
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It is pleasing to reflect that results so beneficial, not only to the States immediately concerned, but to the harmony…
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