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We have cleared the forests, reclaimed the land, and are building cities, railroads, and great institutions. (Booker T. Washington)
Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him. View quote
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man. View quote
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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him. View quote
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We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are. View quote
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We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. View quote
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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else. View quote
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Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth. View quote
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Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. View quote
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Opportunity is like a bald-headed man with only a patch of hair right in front. You have to grab that hair, grasp the opportunity while it's confronting you, else you'll be grasping a slick bald head. View quote
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Providence so often uses men and institutions to accomplish a purpose. (Booker T. Washington)
Bad as conditions might have seemed at first, when they saw that actual progress was being made, they would have taken a more hopeful view of the situation. View quote
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The home life of the English seems to me to be about as perfect as anything can be. Everything moves like clockwork. View quote
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The English servant expects, as a rule, to be nothing but a servant, and so he perfects himself in the art to a degree that no class of servants in America has yet reached. In our country the servant expects to become, in a few years, a "master" himself. View quote
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Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. View quote
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I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high water mark of pure and useful living. View quote
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Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highlyof them, when instead they should try to get their people tothink more highly of themselves.Its wonderful when the people believe in their leader.Its more wonderful when the leader believes in their peopleYou cant hold a man down withoutstaying down with him. Booker T. Washington. View quote
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Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood. We went into slavery a piece of property; we came out American citizens. We went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery without a language; we came out speaking the proud Anglo-Saxon tongue. We went into slavery with slave chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands. Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star. View quote
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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 overcome while trying to succeed. Looked at from this standpoint, I almost reached the conclusion that often the Negro boy's birth and connection with an unpopular race is an advantage, so far as real life is concerned. With few exceptions, the Negro youth must work harder and must perform his tasks even better than a white youth in order to secure recognition. But out of the hard and unusual struggle through which he is compelled to pass, he gets a strength, a confidence, that one misses whose pathway is comparatively smooth by reason of birth and race. View quote
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises. I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant, unexpected encouragements of this kind if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day of his life - that is, tries to make each day reach as nearly as possible the high-water mark of pure, unselfish, useful living. View quote
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