I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONCharacter, not circumstances, makes the man.
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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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From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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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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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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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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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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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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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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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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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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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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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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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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The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.
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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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In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.
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