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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONNothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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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 one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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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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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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Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
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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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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.
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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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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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No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
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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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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
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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 older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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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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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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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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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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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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