No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.
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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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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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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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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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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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Years ago I resolved that because I had no ancestry myself I would leave a record of which my children would be proud, and which might encourage them to still higher effort
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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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There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.
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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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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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