The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThere 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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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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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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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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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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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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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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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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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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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I resolved then that I would permit no man, no matter what his color, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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