We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe 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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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color.
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In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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I believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking.
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I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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The circumstances that surround a man’s life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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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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A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
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Do not do that which others can do as well.
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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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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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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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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 one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Remember that everyone’s life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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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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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.
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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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