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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONIf I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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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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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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We must reinforce argument with results.
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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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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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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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I believe that any man’s life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living.
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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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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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You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of indispensable value.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.
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If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.
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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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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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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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Character is power.
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