Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONWherever, 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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I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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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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We must reinforce argument with results.
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Remember that everyone’s life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
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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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The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
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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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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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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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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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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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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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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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