There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONIn 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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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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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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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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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 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 believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking.
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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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To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say ‘Cast down your bucket where you are.’
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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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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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I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.
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No 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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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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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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