We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONIgnorance is more costly to any State than education.
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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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…those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much sufering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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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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I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I resolved then that I would permit no man, no matter what his color, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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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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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 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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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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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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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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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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 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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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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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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You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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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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Success always leaves footprints.
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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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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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