Ex-Slave Booker T. Washington tells us how to focus on the goals and the policy challenges to come

[populistdriven]

I am not a writer so perhaps someone could please do a better job than me if you like but I found these quotes very interesting.



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

Stick to your progressive liberal character when debating conservatives. Don't let your anger get your eyes off the goals and the agenda. Be the change you want to see.



"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else."
Booker T. Washington

If you are sincere in helping all Americans you can focus on how this will help them and they will stop seeing things as black or white. If you are helping the very person who is your opponent then at the very least they stop believing that you are just misguided but that you have an approach that should be considered.



"You can't hold a man down without staying down with him."
Booker T. Washington

If you let your anger motivate you into tearing them down you have lost.



"Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong."
Booker T. Washington

Higher taxes on the rich ultimately help the entire country by rebuilding the middle class and without expanding entitlements to corporations. Show them that there is a difference between helping people to work and providing for them so that they don't have to work. A drowning man who fights too hard can drown the person trying to help him.



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

Hatred just makes your opponent stronger or at the very least steadfastly maintains the status quo and we can't settle for that.




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booker_T._Washington

[madfloridian]

1. You make some good points.

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

"Stick to your progressive liberal character when debating conservatives. Don't let your anger get your eyes off the goals and the agenda. Be the change you want to see."

Trouble is that the conservatives the last few years have made it impossible not to be angry with them.

Many don't want debate, they just want power.

:hi: