We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONA 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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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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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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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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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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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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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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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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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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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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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.
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