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
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONI believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking.
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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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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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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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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.
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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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The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.
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Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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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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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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