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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONAt the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
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We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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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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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
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I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
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You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.
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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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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, not circumstances, makes the man.
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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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No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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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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Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.
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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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At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
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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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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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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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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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