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Booker T. Washington

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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


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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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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.


— Booker T. Washington


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At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.


— Booker T. Washington


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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.


— Booker T. Washington


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To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.


— Booker T. Washington


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He gained access to top national leaders in politics philanthropy and education. Fannie died in May 1884. Washington revealed that Rogers had been quietly funding operations of 65 small country schools for African Americans and had given substantial sums of money to support Tuskegee and Hampton institutes.

Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5 1856 – November 14 1915) was an African-American educator author orator and advisor to Republican presidents. Historians note that Washington "advised networked cut deals made threats pressured puniBooker T. Washingtond enemies rewarded friends greased palms manipulated the media signed autographs read minds with the skill of a master psychologist strategized raised money always knew where the camera was pointing traveled with an entourage waved the flag with patriotic speeches and claimed to have no interest in partisan politics.

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