Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONI 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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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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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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The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
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There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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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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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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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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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of indispensable value.
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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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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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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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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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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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