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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONDecide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.
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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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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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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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I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.
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I believe that any man’s life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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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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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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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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Do not do that which others can do as well.
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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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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.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
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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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If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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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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I believe that any man’s life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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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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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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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 let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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