Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONNothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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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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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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If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.
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We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.
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I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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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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There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
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I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.
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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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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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