Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
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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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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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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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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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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Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.
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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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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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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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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 shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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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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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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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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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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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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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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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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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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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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Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.
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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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