If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONI pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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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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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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You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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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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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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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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Success always leaves footprints.
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