We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONNever let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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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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No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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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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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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The circumstances that surround a man’s life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.
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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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The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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