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1856–1915 United States
Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was an American political leader, educator and author of African ancestry, most famous for his tenure as President of Tuskegee University (1880–1915).
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Bad as conditions might have seemed at first, when they saw that actual progress was being made, they would have taken a more hopeful view of the situation.
My Larger Education, Being Chapters from My Experience (1911)
In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists. Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
The Great Quotations (1971)
We have cleared the forests, reclaimed the land, and are building cities, railroads, and great institutions.
In all things social as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.
In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
Up From Slavery (1901)
Cast down your bucket where you are.
Up From Slavery (1901)
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 by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
The English servant expects, as a rule, to be nothing but a servant, and so he perfects himself in the art to a degree that no class of servants in America has yet reached. In our country the servant expects to become, in a few years, a "master" himself.
Up From Slavery (1901)
The unprecedented leap the Negro made when freed from the oppressing withes of bondage is more than deserving of a high place in history. It can never be chronicled. The world needs to know of what mettle these people are built.
Introduction (1902)
That beautiful flower in that vase has not spoken a word tonight; it will never speak a word, but, nevertheless, through its beauty and magnificent silence it is lifting up, and making more Christlike every human being in this room.
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 one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.
Up From Slavery (1901)
My experience is that people who call themselves “The Intellectuals” understand theories, but they do not understand things. .. The truth is, I suspect, as I have already suggested, that “The Intellectuals” live too much in the past. They know books but they do not know men.
The Intellectuals and the Boston Mob (1911)
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
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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's confronting you, else you'll be grasping a slick bald head.
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