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.
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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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.
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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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To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say ‘Cast down your bucket where you are.’
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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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We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.
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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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Success always leaves footprints.
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The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your ‘civilization’.
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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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We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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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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