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. WASHINGTONYou measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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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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In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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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 all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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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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Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color.
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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Character is power.
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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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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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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
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