Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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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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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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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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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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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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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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Do not do that which others can do as well.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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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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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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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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If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.
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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
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It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.
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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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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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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 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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You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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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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