Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONNo 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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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim “”Do not get others to do what you can do yourself.”” My motto on the other hand is; “”Do not do that which others can do as well.
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The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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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
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No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.
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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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Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.
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We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
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If 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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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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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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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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