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I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

Booker T. Washington

Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Capture Determination Patience Strength Success
Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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Cherish Cultivation Greatness Hate Love Spirit
I believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Believe Health Heart
Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Cost Education Ignorance Price State
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
Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Art Care Live Love Yourself
We must reinforce argument with results.
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Argument Country People Results
Even where he has the least education and the least encouragement, is incomparably better than the condition and opportunities of the agricultural population in Sicily.
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Agricultural Condition Incomparably Population Sicily
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
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
A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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Helping Lifts Way
I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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Hate Himself Low Man Myself
Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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Law Progress Stars
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
There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Brotherhood Drag Men
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

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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