Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONI 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 shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.
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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 think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim “”Do not get others to do what you can do yourself.”” My motto on the other hand is; “”Do not do that which others can do as well.
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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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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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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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The circumstances that surround a man’s life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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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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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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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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You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
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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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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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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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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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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.
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In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
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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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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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