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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.

Booker T. Washington

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
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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Character Men Skill
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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Exception Hard Work Result Worth
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 Return Slavery
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Learning Measurement Myself Position Success
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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Beginning Dignity Glorify Labor Life
My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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Become Life Surprise Whole
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
Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Country Ignorance People States
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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Learning Life Prosperity Way Yourself
No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Degrade Positive Positivity
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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Character Circumstance Man
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 not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.
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Hands Ideas Intelligent
Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Grief Opportunity Ourselves Shadow
No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Exception Ourselves Validation Value

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