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“I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.”
― Booker T. Washington

“Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.”
― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery

“Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.”
― Booker T. Washington

“Character, not circumstance, makes the person.”
― Booker T. Washington

“We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.”
― Booker T. Washington, The Story of My Life and Work

“Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
― Booker T. Washington

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

“The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.”
― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery

“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”
― Booker T. Washington

“Character is power.”
― Booker T. Washington

“I would permit no man, no matter what his color might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.”
― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery

“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, Up from Slavery: An Autobiography