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I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.

Booker T. Washington

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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
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The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your ‘civilization’.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those…who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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Do not do that which others can do as well.
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At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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