Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your ‘civilization’.
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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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The 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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I believe that any man’s life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others 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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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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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 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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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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