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“I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.” quote by Booker T. Washington — Download Open image

““I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.””

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“There are some things that one individual can do for another, and there are some things that one race can do for another. But,…

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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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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.

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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…

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If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by…

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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…

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“Kada smo u kontaktu sa drugim čovekom, mi mu ili pomažemo ili smetamo. Nema trećeg: ili ga vučemo na dole, ili ga izvlačimo na…

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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

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We must reinforce argument with results.

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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.

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No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.

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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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Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.

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“We were putting into these gomers our fear of death, but who knew if they feared death? Perhaps they welcomed death like a dear long-lost cousin, grown old but still known, coming to visit, relieving the loneliness, the failing of the senses, the fury of the half-blind looking into the mirror and not recognizing who is looking back, a dear…

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