If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONIt 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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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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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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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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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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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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We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.
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We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.
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