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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
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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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I believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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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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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of indispensable value.
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There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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To 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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The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse circumstances can take from him.
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There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
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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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Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens.
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We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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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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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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