At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONWhenever 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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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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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.
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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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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
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No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.
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The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.
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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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Character is power.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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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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We must reinforce argument with results.
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Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.
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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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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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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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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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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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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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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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No 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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