I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
Educated 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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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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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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The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
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Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.
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Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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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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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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I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim “”Do not get others to do what you can do yourself.”” My motto on the other hand is; “”Do not do that which others can do as well.
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No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
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