"No race can prosper till it learns that……" — Booker T. Washington
"No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem."
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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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As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people…
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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
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You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers…
— Joe Arpaio
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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without…
— Francis Bacon
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Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies…
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There is a certain dignity to being French.
— Brigitte Bardot
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The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of…
— P T Barnum
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There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
— Charles Baudelaire
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If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of…
— Gary Bauer
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