A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONYou must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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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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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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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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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.
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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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The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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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 escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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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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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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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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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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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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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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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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