Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe 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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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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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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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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Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your ‘civilization’.
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At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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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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Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.
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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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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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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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