"To hold a man down, you have to…" — Booker T. Washington

"To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him."

— Booker T. Washington

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102 Quotes by Booker T. Washington

Booker T. Washington has 102 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as…
In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous…
Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception…
The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in…
In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the…
Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit…
A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it…
Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker... there is no escape... people drag others or lift…

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The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the… — Mary Astell
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