My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONAt 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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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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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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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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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.
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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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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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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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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.
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You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.
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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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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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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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No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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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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I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.
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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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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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Character is power.
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