My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONNo 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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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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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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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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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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No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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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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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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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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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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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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Decide 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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If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.
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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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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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The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse circumstances can take from him.
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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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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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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 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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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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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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Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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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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Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color.
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