Character is power.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONMy whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.
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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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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.
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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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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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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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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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It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Do not do that which others can do as well.
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Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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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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We 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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Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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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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No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
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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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Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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It 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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It 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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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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