I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe 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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A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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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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We must reinforce argument with results.
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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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Character is power.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
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The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
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We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
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Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
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