One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONDignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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Character is power.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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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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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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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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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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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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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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Success always leaves footprints.
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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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A 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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In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists.
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