Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONI 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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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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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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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come.
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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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No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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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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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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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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The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.
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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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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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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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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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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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