It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your ‘civilization’.
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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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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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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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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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I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of indispensable value.
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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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Success always leaves footprints.
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We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
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The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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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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The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.
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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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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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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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Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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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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The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
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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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