Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONI 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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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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I believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking.
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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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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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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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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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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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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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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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Character is power.
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In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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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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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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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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