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Washington, Booker T.
Born: 1856-04-05
Died: 1915-11-15

African-American educator.

Quotes

Character is power.
- Booker T. Washington

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
- Booker T. Washington

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
- Booker T. Washington

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 had to overcome while trying to succeed.
- Booker T. Washington

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.
- Booker T. Washington

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.
- Booker T. Washington

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
- Booker T. Washington

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
- Booker T. Washington

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