Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
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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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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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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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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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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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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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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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 happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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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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No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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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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Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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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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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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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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At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
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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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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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It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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