You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe 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.
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I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of indispensable value.
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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.
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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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I believe that any man’s life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living.
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The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.
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Even where he has the least education and the least encouragement, is incomparably better than the condition and opportunities of the agricultural population in Sicily.
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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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The circumstances that surround a man’s life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.
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Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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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.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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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.
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No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.
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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come.
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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Remember that everyone’s life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
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We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.
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