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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.

Booker T. Washington

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 you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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Dreams Hard Reading Realization
If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.
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Men Overcoming Want
I do not believe that one should speak unless, deep down in his heart, he feels convinced that he has a message to deliver.
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Convinced Heart Message Mutual Progress
I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.
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Help Learning Lift Myself Thinking Way
The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
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Class House Sight
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.
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Ideas People Succeed
There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Brotherhood Drag Men
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
Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.
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College Education Errors Man Religion Woman
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
We must reinforce argument with results.
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Argument Integrate Result
Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Country Ignorance People States
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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Happiness Less Misery People
We must reinforce argument with results.
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Argument Country People Results
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
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Inspirational Knowledge Wisdom

Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.

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