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Them Quotes by Booker T. Washington
- 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…
- By habits of thrift and economy, by way of the industrial school and college, we are coming up. We are crawling up, working up, yea,…
- Had (I) been a member of a more popular race, I should have been inclined to yield to the temptation of depending upon my ancestry…
- We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
- We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
- In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read…
- 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…
- 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…
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