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From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.

Booker T. Washington

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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
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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Poem Prosperity Race Writing
Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.
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Carry Connection Race Superior Worth
A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Individual Integrity Race
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Character is power.
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Character One Liner Power
Success always leaves footprints.
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Leaving Mark One Liner Success
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 Success
An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Application Clarity Communicate
I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I resolved then that I would permit no man, no matter what his color, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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Color Hate Men
In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
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Essential Progress Purity Separate
Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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Enough Start Yourself
Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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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
You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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Help Himself Man Trouble Understand
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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