Years ago I resolved that because I had no ancestry myself I would leave a record of which my children would be proud, and which might encourage them to still higher effort
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONTo 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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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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In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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And that out of this very resistance to wrong, out of the struggle against odds, they have gained strength, self-confidence, and experience which they could not have gained in any other way.
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The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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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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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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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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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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Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
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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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From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.
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