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A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.

Booker T. Washington

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There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
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Oneself Strength Way
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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Earth Influence Life Power Simplicity
No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Degrade Positive Positivity
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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Common Excellence Way
My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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Life Oneself Surprise
You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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Himself Hold Man Stay
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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Character Circumstances Men
The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.
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Death Experience Live Myself Opportunity World Worth
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
We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.
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Clanking Country Hands Want
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
You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.
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Black Ethnic History Myself Race Time
A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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Helping Lifts Way
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Empowerment Yourself
Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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Cherish Cultivation Greatness Hate Love Spirit
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

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