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’.
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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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 must reinforce argument with results.
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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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If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.
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Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.
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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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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.
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Even where he has the least education and the least encouragement, is incomparably better than the condition and opportunities of the agricultural population in Sicily.
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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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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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Success always leaves footprints.
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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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