There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONDecide 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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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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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.
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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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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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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists.
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Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.
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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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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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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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Remember that everyone’s life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
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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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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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