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BOOKER T. WASHINGTONA race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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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 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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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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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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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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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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Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
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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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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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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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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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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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Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.
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