Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.
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We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.
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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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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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We must reinforce argument with results.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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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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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.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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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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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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The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.
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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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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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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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I believe that any man’s life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
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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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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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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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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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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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