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.
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 shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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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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Even where he has the least education and the least encouragement, is incomparably better than the condition and opportunities of the agricultural population in Sicily.
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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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There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.
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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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We must reinforce argument with results.
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We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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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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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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