I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of indispensable value.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONGreat 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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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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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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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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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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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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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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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.
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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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Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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