Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONYears 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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Character is power.
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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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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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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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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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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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Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
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In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.
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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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Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.
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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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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 shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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