At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONRemember 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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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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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
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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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Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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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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I do not believe that one should speak unless, deep down in his heart, he feels convinced that he has a message to deliver.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.
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