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. WASHINGTONA 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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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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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.
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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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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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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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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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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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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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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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