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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.

Booker T. Washington

The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your ‘civilization’.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Civilization Live Problem Question Study
Success always leaves footprints.
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Country Footprint People Success
The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
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Country Individual People Race World
If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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Dreams Hard Reading Realization
The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your ‘civilization’.
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Civilization Problem Study
Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Country Ignorance People States
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
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
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
I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.
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Help Learning Lift Myself Thinking Way
Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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God Guide Law Nature Progress Star
I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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Hate Men Permit
An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Application Clarity Communicate
I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
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Body Heart People
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.
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Inspirational Life Success
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Compassion Happiness Helping Others

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