We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe 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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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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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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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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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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Success always leaves footprints.
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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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The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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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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A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
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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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To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say ‘Cast down your bucket where you are.’
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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