In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONNever let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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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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Character is power.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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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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Character is power.
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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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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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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 have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
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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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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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There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.
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It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.
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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 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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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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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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