If you do this, your lives are going to be a constant going forward; for, I repeat, your lives are going to be one thing or the other, continually going backward or continually going forward.
Washington highlights the importance of making a choice between progress and stagnation in life.
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Before the end of the year, I think I began learning that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
From the time that I can remember anything, almost every day of my life had been occupied in some kind of labour; though I think I would now be a more useful man if I had had time for sports.
In this connection I have never been able to understand how the slaves throughout the South, completely ignorant as were the masses so far as books or newspapers were concerned, were able to keep themselves so accurately and completely…
I have long since ceased to cherish any spirit of bitterness against the Southern white people on account of the enslavement of my race.