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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONIf you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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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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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.
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I believe that any man’s life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living.
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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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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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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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The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
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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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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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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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