More from Booker T. Washington

  1. Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood. We went into sl…
  2. I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.
  3. There is no power on earth, that can neutralize the influence of a high, pure, simple and useful life.
  4. The world cares very little what you or I know, but it does care a great deal about what you or I do.
  5. 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 hate another…
  6. Opportunity is like a bald-headed man with only a patch of hair right in front. You have to grab that hair, grasp the opportunity while it'…
  7. From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen on…
  8. I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery. I have lo…

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