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 believe that any man’s life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living.
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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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I believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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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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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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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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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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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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We must reinforce argument with results.
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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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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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