It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
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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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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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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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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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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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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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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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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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I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I resolved then that I would permit no man, no matter what his color, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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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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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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Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.
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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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In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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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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I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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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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Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.
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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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No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
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