Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
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In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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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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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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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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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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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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In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists.
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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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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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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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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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