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Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.

Booker T. Washington

There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Escape Help Man
Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.
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Mastered Problem Score Understand
There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Brotherhood Drag Men
You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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Help Himself Man Trouble Understand
Character is power.
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Character Country People
We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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Ignorance Narrow Rise Selfish
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 must reinforce argument with results.
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Argument Integrate Result
I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.
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Habit Heart Hold Narrow Unfortunate
There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.
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Class Jobs Race
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
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Inspirational Knowledge Wisdom
It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.
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Exercise Important Preparation Privilege Right
I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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Hate Himself Low Man Myself
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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Himself Hold Man
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Compassionate Generosity Happiness
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

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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