Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONProgress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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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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Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.
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Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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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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I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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