Remember that everyone’s life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONFew things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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And that out of this very resistance to wrong, out of the struggle against odds, they have gained strength, self-confidence, and experience which they could not have gained in any other way.
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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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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say ‘Cast down your bucket where you are.’
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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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Success always leaves footprints.
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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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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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Character is power.
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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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We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.
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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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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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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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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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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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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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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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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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Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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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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No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.
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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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