We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONLet our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.
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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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Character is power.
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Character is power.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
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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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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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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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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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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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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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