Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONA race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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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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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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No 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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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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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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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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I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
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Even where he has the least education and the least encouragement, is incomparably better than the condition and opportunities of the agricultural population in Sicily.
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Character is power.
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I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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Do not do that which others can do as well.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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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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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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…those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much sufering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.
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Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.
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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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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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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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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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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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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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