Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONCharacter, not circumstances, makes the man.
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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 let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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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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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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Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.
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To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say ‘Cast down your bucket where you are.’
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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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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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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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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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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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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
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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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Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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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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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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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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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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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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Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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