It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONNo one can degrade us except ourselves.
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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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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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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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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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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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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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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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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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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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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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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
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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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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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Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
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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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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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