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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONGreat men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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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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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
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Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists.
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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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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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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
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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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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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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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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.
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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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Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens.
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