No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe 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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I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim “”Do not get others to do what you can do yourself.”” My motto on the other hand is; “”Do not do that which others can do as well.
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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.
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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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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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Remember that everyone’s life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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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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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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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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No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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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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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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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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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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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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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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