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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

Booker T. Washington

It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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Foundation Mean Thinking
Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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Generosity Help Hold Kindness
Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Country Ignorance People States
You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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Go Letting Men Stay Strong
There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Brotherhood Drag Men
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
An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Abstraction Application Practical
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

Intellectual Live Man Material Place Reward
Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.
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Long Running World
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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Body Heart People
We must reinforce argument with results.
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Argument Country People Results
In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists.
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Country Disadvantage Law Men People
The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.
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Death Experience Live Myself Opportunity World Worth
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
An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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Inches Progress Yards
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Life Measurement Obstacle Success Yourself

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