Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONMy whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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And that out of this very resistance to wrong, out of the struggle against odds, they have gained strength, self-confidence, and experience which they could not have gained in any other way.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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The 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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Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.
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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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Even where he has the least education and the least encouragement, is incomparably better than the condition and opportunities of the agricultural population in Sicily.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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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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Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.
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No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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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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In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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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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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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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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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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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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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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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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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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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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