I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONAn ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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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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No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.
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In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
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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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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I resolved then that I would permit no man, no matter what his color, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.
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The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.
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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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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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The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
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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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The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.
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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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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 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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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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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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