Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONIn 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 all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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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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I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your ‘civilization’.
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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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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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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
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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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If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.
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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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