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Quote by Booker T. Washington

“I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.”

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Booker T. Washington was an influential African American educator, author, orator, and advisor to several U.S. presidents. He was a prominent figure in the African-American community during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his advocacy of vocational education and economic empowerment for African Americans. Washington founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, which evolved into Tuskegee University. He emphasized the importance of self-help and economic independence over immediate political and social reforms. more

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Book:An Autobiography: The Story of My Life and Work, the Original Brought Up-to-date with Over Half a Hundred Full Page Photo and Halftone Engravings and Drawings by Frank Beard

Source: An Autobiography: The Story of My Life and Work, the Original Brought Up-to-date with Over Half a Hundred Full Page Photo and Halftone Engravings and Drawings by Frank Beard

“Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.”

Source: Up from Slavery

“It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.”

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Author:Niels Bohr

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

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Book:Address of Booker T. Washington, Principal of the Tuskegee Normal & Industrial Institute: Before the National Educational Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 30, 1904

Source: Address of Booker T. Washington, Principal of the Tuskegee Normal & Industrial Institute: Before the National Educational Association, St. Louis, Missouri, June 30, 1904

“You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.”

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Author:Booker T. Washington

“No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.”

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Book:The Booker T. Washington Papers: 1912-14

Source: The Booker T. Washington Papers: 1912-14

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