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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONWe all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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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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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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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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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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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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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.
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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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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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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.
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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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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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