Years ago I resolved that because I had no ancestry myself I would leave a record of which my children would be proud, and which might encourage them to still higher effort
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONI have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
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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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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.
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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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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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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
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Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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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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Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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