A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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I believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking.
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Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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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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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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We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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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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You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.
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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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