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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.

Booker T. Washington

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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Country Disadvantage Law Men People
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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Accomplishment Greatness Patience Polite Result
There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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Defense Development Highest
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
I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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Color Hate Himself Man Soul
We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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Buckets Common 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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Ideas People Succeed
The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.
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Progress Race Struggle
Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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Law Progress Stars
The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
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Book Equal Men
My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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Life Oneself Surprise
I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.
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Attention Evil Giving
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
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
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

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