No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONStart where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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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.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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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 individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
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Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.
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Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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Character is power.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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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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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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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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If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.
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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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Success always leaves footprints.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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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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Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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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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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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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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In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists.
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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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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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