A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONNever let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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Character is power.
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If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.
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Do not do that which others can do as well.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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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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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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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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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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Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
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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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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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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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