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It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.

Booker T. Washington

Years ago I resolved that because I had no ancestry myself I would leave a record of which my children would be proud, and which might encourage them to still higher effort
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Ancestry Children Effort Higher Leave Proud
We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Learning Life Prosperity Way Yourself
If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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Dreams Hard Reading Realization
There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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Development Exception High Intelligence Security
Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Cost Education Ignorance Price State
There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Escape Help Man
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
We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.
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Hands Ideas Intelligent
Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
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Countries People Some Jobs Wants
If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Christian Men Years
Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Art Care Live Love Yourself
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
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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Exception Hard Work Result Worth
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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Determination Waiting
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Bottom Common Labor
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

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