There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONYou go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.
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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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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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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.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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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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I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
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The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.
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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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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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Character is power.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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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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I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim “”Do not get others to do what you can do yourself.”” My motto on the other hand is; “”Do not do that which others can do as well.
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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.
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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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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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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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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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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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I believe that any man’s life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living.
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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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Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.
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Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.
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