Leaders 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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONWe shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.
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The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse circumstances can take from him.
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Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
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I do not believe that one should speak unless, deep down in his heart, he feels convinced that he has a message to deliver.
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Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.
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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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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
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The 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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Success always leaves footprints.
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Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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The 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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You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.
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The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.
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