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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONNo white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.
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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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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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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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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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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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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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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse circumstances can take from him.
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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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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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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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You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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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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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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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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Character is power.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.
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The 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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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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