The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThink 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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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
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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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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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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
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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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At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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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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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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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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