A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONIf 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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I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.
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Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.
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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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Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
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The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.
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From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.
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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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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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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.
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The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.
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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.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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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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Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.
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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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You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.
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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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Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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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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