There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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…those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much sufering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Do not do that which others can do as well.
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Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Character is power.
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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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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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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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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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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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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.
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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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From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.
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We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
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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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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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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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You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.
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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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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.
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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 proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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