If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThere is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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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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There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
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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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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 think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.
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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
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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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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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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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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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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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We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.
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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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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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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON