There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe 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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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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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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I believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking.
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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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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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Success always leaves footprints.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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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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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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Do not do that which others can do as well.
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Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
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Character is power.
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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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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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A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
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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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The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.
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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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You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.
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