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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONNo 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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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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I believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking.
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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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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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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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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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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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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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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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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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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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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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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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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
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