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You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.

Booker T. Washington

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Dreams Hard Reading Realization
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
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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Education Independence Race
Character is power.
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Character Country People
Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.
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Country Disadvantage Exist Freedom Happiness
The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
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End Himself Race Regard Willing World
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
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Effort Greatness Injury Life Race Youth
Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens.
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Christian Hands Thinking
In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.
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Best Different History Race Willing World
Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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Enough Start Yourself
Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.
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Knowing Leader Political
No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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Contribution Degree Market Race
Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.
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Cherish Cultivation Greatness Love Strong Weakness
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.
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Freedom Ideas Myself Return Slave
Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color.
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Hate Men Race
Years ago I resolved that because I had no ancestry myself I would leave a record of which my children would be proud, and which might encourage them to still higher effort
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Ancestry Children Effort Higher Leave Proud

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