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Booker T. Washington Quotes about Positive

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

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

No one can degrade us except ourselves.

Booker T. Washington, Louis R. Harlan (1981). “The Booker T. Washington Papers”, p.36, University of Illinois Press

I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.

Anson Phelps Stokes, Booker T. Washington (1931). “Tuskegee Institute the First Fifty Years: Being the Founder's Day Historical Adress Delivered April 14, 1931, at the Semi-centennial of the Institute's Founding”