Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONIt means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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…those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much sufering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.
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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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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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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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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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In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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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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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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And that out of this very resistance to wrong, out of the struggle against odds, they have gained strength, self-confidence, and experience which they could not have gained in any other way.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens.
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We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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