It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONNo 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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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.
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Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens.
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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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I do not believe that one should speak unless, deep down in his heart, he feels convinced that he has a message to deliver.
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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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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
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Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
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The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
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The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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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.
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