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Booker T. Washington

Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.
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Carry Connection Race Superior Worth
No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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Contribution Degree Market Race
Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Generosity Help Hold Kindness
Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
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Country Grudge Hurt People
An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Application Clarity Communicate
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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Beginning Dignity Glorify Labor Life
The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
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Country Individual People Race World
Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
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Attention Life Remote Small Success
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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Down Man One Remaining
And that out of this very resistance to wrong, out of the struggle against odds, they have gained strength, self-confidence, and experience which they could not have gained in any other way.
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Confidence Experience Gained Self Way
You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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Help Himself Man Trouble Understand
I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
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Heart Nation People Slave Unfortunate
We must reinforce argument with results.
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Argument Integrate Result
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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Bottom Common Labor
No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.
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Food Men Thinking
Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Country Ignorance People States

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