Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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 must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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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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No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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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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Do not do that which others can do as well.
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I believe that any man’s life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
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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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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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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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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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