I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONNo 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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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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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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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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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
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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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Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.
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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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It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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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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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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