Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONDignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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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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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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In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.
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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 let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.
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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.
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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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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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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 happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens.
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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 negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.
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Character is power.
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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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…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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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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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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Character is power.
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I believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking.
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