No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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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I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
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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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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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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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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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I believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.
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It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.
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You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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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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