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“The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.”

Booker T. Washington

“The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.”

Booker T. Washington book Up from Slavery

Source: Up from Slavery

“In all things social as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.”

Booker T. Washington

As quoted in speech by Edward de Veaux Morrell https://cdn.loc.gov/service/rbc/lcrbmrp/t2609/t2609.pdf (April 1904) <br class="br">Variant: In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

“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

Source: 1900s, Up From Slavery (1901), Chapter XI: Making Their Beds Before They Could Lie On Them

“From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.”

Booker T. Washington

Source: 1900s, Up From Slavery (1901), Chapter I: A Slave Among Slaves