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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONOne man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with 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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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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Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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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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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.
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No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.
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Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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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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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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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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Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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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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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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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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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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The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.
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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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Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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