We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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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We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.
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I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.
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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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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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No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.
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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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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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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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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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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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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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