There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONIn any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists.
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A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
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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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We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.
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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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I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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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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Character is power.
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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 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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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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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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