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.
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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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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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 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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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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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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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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Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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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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We must reinforce argument with results.
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Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.
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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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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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