In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONYou measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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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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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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Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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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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Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
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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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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come.
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Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.
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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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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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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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No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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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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I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.
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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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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 longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your ‘civilization’.
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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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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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