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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

Booker T. Washington

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The circumstances that surround a man’s life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.
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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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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
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I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
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I believe that any man’s life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living.
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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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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