Character is power.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONPolitical activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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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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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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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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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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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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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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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
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The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.
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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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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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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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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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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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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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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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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 think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.
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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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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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