My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONI 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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…those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much sufering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.
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Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.
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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your ‘civilization’.
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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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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists.
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I believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking.
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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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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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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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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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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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