"No one can degrade us except ourselves." — Booker T. Washington
"No one can degrade us except ourselves."
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Booker T. Washington
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102 Quotes by Booker T. Washington
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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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More Degrade Quotes
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
— Aristotle
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The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire…
— William Blake
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Nothing is gained except by sacrifice.... Do not degrade it to the level of the brutes.... Make yourselves decent men!…
— Swami Vivekananda
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You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak.…
— Frederick Douglass
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Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my…
— William Blake
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We're not locked in to these conditions that degrade the environment, and jeopardize the future of our children.
— Dennis Kucinich
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A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.
— Hugo Black
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But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny…
— Isaiah Berlin
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We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions-bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Our objective is clear: we will degrade, and ultimately destroy, ISIL through a comprehensive and sustained counter-terrorism strategy.
— Barack Obama
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Don't you long to shout to those youths who are bustling around you: Fools! Leave those worldly things that shackle…
— Josemaria Escriva
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Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his…
— Mark Twain
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