There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONHolding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
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Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.
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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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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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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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We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
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Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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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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Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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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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