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Booker T. Washington has 95 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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 the disease…
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In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will…
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Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been…
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The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon…
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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 less fortunate.
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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 of holding…
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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 was helpful…
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Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker... there is no escape... people drag others or lift others up.
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My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
— Arthur Ashe
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I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.
— Amanda Beard
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I wanted to run my race. I didn't want to sit there and play games and see who could kick the hardest.…
— Marla Runyan
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I have the world heavyweight title not because it was 'given' to me, not because of my race or religion, but because…
— Muhammad Ali
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I sincerely hope that I shall always be a credit to my race, and to the motion picture industry.
— Hattie McDaniel
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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, fellow members of the motion picture industry and honored guests: This is one of the…
— Hattie McDaniel
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Now, suppose a Negro does something really magnificent, and I glory, not in the benefit to mankind, but in the fact that…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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I am not satisfied in making money for myself. I endeavor to provide employment for hundreds of the women of my race.
— Madam C. J. Walker
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In spite of everything that was done to me and my race, in spite of the adversity and the bitter moments, again…
— Maya Angelou
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Many track and field people know that if I stay relaxed and run my race like I'm supposed to, I will be…
— Asafa Powell
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I know that my race must change.
— Chief Joseph
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I cannot help wondering sometimes what I might have become and might have done if I had lived in a country which…
— Mary Church Terrell
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