The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONLeaders 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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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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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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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
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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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Years ago I resolved that because I had no ancestry myself I would leave a record of which my children would be proud, and which might encourage them to still higher effort
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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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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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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say ‘Cast down your bucket where you are.’
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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come.
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Character is power.
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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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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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