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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThere is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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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 no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.
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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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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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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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It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.
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You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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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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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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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
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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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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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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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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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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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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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At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
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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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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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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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We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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