The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONEducated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.
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No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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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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A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say ‘Cast down your bucket where you are.’
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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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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
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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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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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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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The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your ‘civilization’.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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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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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.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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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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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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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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No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
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