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Men Quotes by Booker T. Washington
- The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the…
- Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to…
- Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred
- There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
- The circumstances that surround a man's life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining…
- Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highly of them, when instead they should try to get their people to think more…
- If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the…
- Never get to the point where you will be ashamed to ask anybody for information. The ignorant man will always be ignorant if he fears…
- Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
- I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.
- You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
- One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
- Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
- We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
- No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without…
- I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
- The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is…
- No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks…
- Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong;…
- I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
- The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
- I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best…
- Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade…
- I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I resolved then that I would…
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