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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThose who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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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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The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
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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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We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.
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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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A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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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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There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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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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You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.
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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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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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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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Remember that everyone’s life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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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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It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.
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I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I resolved then that I would permit no man, no matter what his color, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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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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Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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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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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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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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