Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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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Do not do that which others can do as well.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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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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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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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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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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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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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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