The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe 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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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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Remember that everyone’s life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
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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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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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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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I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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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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Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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