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1– Joseph Addison, 3 Elements of Happiness
2– Douglas Bader, Handicaps
3– Charles A. Beard, Man's Purpose
4– John Bogle , Investing
5– Bertolt Brecht, Initiative
6– Robert Browning , Making the Effort
7– Giordano Bruno, Conviction
8– Edmund Burke, Doing the Right Thing
9– Albert Camus, Hope
10– Thomas Carlyle, Making a Difference
11– Dale Carnegie, Showing Appreciation
12– Winston Churchill, Courage and Listening
13– Marcus Tullius Cicero, Suspicions
14– Arthur Compton, Advantages of Modern Life
15– Kevin Costner, Staying True to Yourself
16– Bette Davis, Creativity and Money
17– Jefferson Davis, Subservience and Pride
18– Charles Dickens, The Ends Don't Justify the Means
19– George Eliot, Regrets
20– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Actions Speak Louder Than Words
21– Epictetus, Becoming Your Best Self
22– Malcolm Forbes, Character
23– Harrison Ford, Success and Individuality
24– Benjamin Franklin, Self-esteem vs. Popularity
25– Thomas Fuller, Hope
26– Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Happiness and Harmony
27– Romain Gary, Humor and Dignity
28– Douglas Haig, No Surrender
29– Ernest Hemingway, Pressure
30– Victor Hugo, Obscure Struggles
31– Zora Neale Hurston, Making the Effort
32– Washington Irving, Women and Adversity
33– William James, Attitude
34– Thomas Jefferson, Style Vs Principle
35– Helen Keller, Changing the World
36– Robert F. Kennedy, Effort
37– Martin Luther King, Jr., Pride in Work
38– Charles Kingsley, Value of Work
39– Abraham Lincoln, Daily Life
40– Vince Lombardi, Resilience
41– George Leigh Mallory, Challenge
42– Abraham Maslow, Fulfillment Through Work
43– David McKay, Challenge
44– Friedrich Nietzsche, Self-Respect
45– Louis Nizer, Religion
46– Thomas Paine, Profiting from Adversity
47– Louis Pasteur, Ideals
48– Alexander Pope, Admitting Mistakes
49– Christopher Reeve, Dreams
50– Eleanor Roosevelt, Confronting Fear
51– Franklin D. Roosevelt, Happiness and Achievement
52– Theodore Roosevelt, No Excuses
53– E. Merrill Root, Work and Happiness
54– John Ruskin, Learning from Others
55– George Santayana, Lovers and Philosophers
56– William Shakespeare, Be Yourself
57– George Bernard Shaw, Creating Opportunity
58– John Steinbeck, Leadership
59– Robert Louis Stevenson, Potential
60– Thomas Szasz, Finding Yourself
61– Leo Tolstoy, What is Art?
62– Anthony Trollope, Against the Odds
63– Wang Yang-ming, Mistakes
64– Booker T. Washington, Rising Above Hatred
65– Hugh White, Focus on the Future
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Rising Above Hatred
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“I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.” |
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Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915), American Educator and Black Leader |
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Washington was the long-term (1881-1915) leader of Alabama’s Tuskegee Institute, which became a leading force in vocational training for blacks. Washington generally believed that the best way for blacks to advance in society was through practical training and business success; he believed in conciliation with whites rather than confrontation and political agitation. He became the most powerful black man of his time, influential not just in education but also in political appointments for blacks, philanthropic grants to black institutions, and black newspapers. Although outwardly conciliatory, Washington secretly encouraged and financed various attempts, including lawsuits, to block southern segregationists.
Washington was born into slavery in Virginia; his mother was the cook on a plantation, his father was a local white man who took no responsibility for him. His mother married another slave, who, after the Civil War, put his stepsons to work in the salt mines of West Virginia. Booker continued to work in the mines before and after school. Walking, hitching rides, and doing odd jobs along the way, he managed to get himself to Hampton Institute, a black college, in 1872 where he supported himself by working as a janitor.
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