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The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows, it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. -Booker T. Washington.

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

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.

I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. - Up from Slavery.

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

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.

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.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.