Booker T. Washington

American educator

Books by Booker T. Washington

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I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

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There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

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