An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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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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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Character is power.
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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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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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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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Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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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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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists.
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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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