A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONI pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.
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No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim “”Do not get others to do what you can do yourself.”” My motto on the other hand is; “”Do not do that which others can do as well.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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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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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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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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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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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 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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Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.
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Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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