One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
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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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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of indispensable value.
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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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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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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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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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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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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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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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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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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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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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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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