At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONI think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.
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Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
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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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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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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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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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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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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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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 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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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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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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