Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONProgress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.
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The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.
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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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Each one should remember there is a chance for 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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The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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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 negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.
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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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We must reinforce argument with results.
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I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of indispensable value.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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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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