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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
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I learned that assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; and that oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.
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Circulated everywhere as if you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else, which appears in none of Washington's books, addresses or letters. This is the sentence in Up from Slavery it compresses. The paraphrase is not unfair, but it is not a quotation, and it drops the second half -- the claim that oppressing the unfortunate makes the oppressor weak -- which is the part he was actually arguing.
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At that institution I got my first taste of what it meant to live a life of unselfishness, my first knowledge of the fact that the happiest individuals are those who do the most to make others useful and happy.
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My experience is that there is something in human nature which always makes an individual recognize and reward merit, no matter under what colour of skin merit is found.
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Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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I want you to make up your minds that you are going to be more nearly perfect, are going to put more manly and womanly strength into the preparation of your lessons each day, that you may be more useful.
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Very many people, very many students, who otherwise would succeed, who would go through school creditably, graduating with honours, have failed to succeed because they became discouraged.
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If we would be great, and good, and useful, we must pay the price. And remember that when we get down to the fundamental principles of truth, nature draws no colour line.
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Our ability to make the world better depends entirely upon our ability to use every opportunity to make ourselves better.