If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONWe all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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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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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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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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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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We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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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 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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Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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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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I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.
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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
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The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
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Character is power.
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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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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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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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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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