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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONI early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.
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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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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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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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We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.
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A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
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And that out of this very resistance to wrong, out of the struggle against odds, they have gained strength, self-confidence, and experience which they could not have gained in any other way.
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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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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 must reinforce argument with results.
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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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The 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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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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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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I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.
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