Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe 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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Character is power.
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No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.
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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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It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.
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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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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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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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Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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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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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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