Booker T. Washington

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“I have learned that 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 while trying to succeed.”

― Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)

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“Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.”

― Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)

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“Character, not circumstance, makes the person.”

― Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)

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“Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”

― Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)

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“Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity”

― Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)

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“The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.”

― Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)

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“No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.”

― Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)

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"We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness."

― Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)