Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThere is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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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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The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
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No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
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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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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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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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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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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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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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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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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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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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From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.
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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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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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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 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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Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.
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I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim “”Do not get others to do what you can do yourself.”” My motto on the other hand is; “”Do not do that which others can do as well.
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