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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONWe 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 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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I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.
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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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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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You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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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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The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.
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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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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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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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The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.
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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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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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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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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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