Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONIf 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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There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
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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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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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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.
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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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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.
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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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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the 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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Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
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Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.
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