If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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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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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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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The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.
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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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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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Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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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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Success always leaves footprints.
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Character is power.
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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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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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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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To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say ‘Cast down your bucket where you are.’
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