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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.

Booker T. Washington

We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Clanking Country Hands Want
The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.
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Ability Character Himself Politics Possession Right Time
You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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Himself Hold Man Stay
A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
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Helpful Humanity Inspirational Life
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
Character is power.
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Character One Liner Power
Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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Complete Control Drive Master Work
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Compassion Happiness Helping Others
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Inspirational Motivational Obstacles
To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say ‘Cast down your bucket where you are.’
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Men Race White
I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Ideas People Succeed
No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Humility Karma Life
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
It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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Deal Foundation Greatness Myself Start Thinking
If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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Attention Feeling Inheritance Life Mom Myself Worth
An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Application Clarity Communicate

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