No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONI 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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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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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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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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Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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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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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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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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Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.
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Character is power.
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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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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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In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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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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