The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONIt is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.
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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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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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The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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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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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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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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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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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of indispensable value.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
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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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