There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.

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I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

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Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highly of them, when instead they should try to get their people to think more highly of themselves. It's wonderful when the people believe in their leader. It's more wonderful when the leader believes in their people! You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

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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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Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens. We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.

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Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred

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

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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.

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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.

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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.

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