"There is another class of coloured people who……" — Booker T. Washington
"There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs."
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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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Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception…
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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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