If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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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You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.
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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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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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We must reinforce argument with results.
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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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Years ago I resolved that because I had no ancestry myself I would leave a record of which my children would be proud, and which might encourage them to still higher effort
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Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
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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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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 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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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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Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
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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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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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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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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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No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
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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 you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.
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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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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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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 thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.
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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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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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