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Booker T. Washington Quotes

«You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.»
«No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.»
«Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.»
«One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.»
«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 proper reward.»
«There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.»
«Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.»
«Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.»
«At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.»
«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 each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high water mark of pure and useful living.»

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