Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONLeaders 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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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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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Years ago I resolved that because I had no ancestry myself I would leave a record of which my children would be proud, and which might encourage them to still higher effort
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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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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.
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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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Character is power.
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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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The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
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Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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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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