Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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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In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
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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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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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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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At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
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Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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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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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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No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
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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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The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.
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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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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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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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The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
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Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
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If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.
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Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
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The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
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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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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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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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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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