There is no escape — man drags man down, or man lifts man up. - Booker T. Washington

In working out our destiny, while the main burden and center of activity must be with us, we shall need in a large measure the help, the encouragement, the guidance that the strong can give the weak. Thus helped, we of both races in the South shall soon throw off the shackles of racial and sectional prejudice and rise above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness into that atmosphere, that pure sunshine, where it will be our highest ambition to serve man, our brother, regardless of race or past conditions.

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

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.