There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThose who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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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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In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.
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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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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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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
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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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In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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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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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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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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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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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim “”Do not get others to do what you can do yourself.”” My motto on the other hand is; “”Do not do that which others can do as well.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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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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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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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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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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Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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