The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONEven where he has the least education and the least encouragement, is incomparably better than the condition and opportunities of the agricultural population in Sicily.
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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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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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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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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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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
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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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You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.
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The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
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Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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