One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONYou can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
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Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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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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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those…who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.
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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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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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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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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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