Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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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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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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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.
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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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Character is power.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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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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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
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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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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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