Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe 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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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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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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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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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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We must reinforce argument with results.
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No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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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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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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The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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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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We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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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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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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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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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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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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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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