I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONIn 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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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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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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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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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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We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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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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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.
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Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.
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