Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONMany strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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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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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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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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Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.
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The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.
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I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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I do not believe that one should speak unless, deep down in his heart, he feels convinced that he has a message to deliver.
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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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We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
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I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.
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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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We must reinforce argument with results.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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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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From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.
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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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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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