The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONI think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.
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It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.
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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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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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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Character is power.
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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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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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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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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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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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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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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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I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.
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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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