We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONA race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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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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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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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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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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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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And that out of this very resistance to wrong, out of the struggle against odds, they have gained strength, self-confidence, and experience which they could not have gained in any other way.
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Remember that everyone’s life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
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Years ago I resolved that because I had no ancestry myself I would leave a record of which my children would be proud, and which might encourage them to still higher effort
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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