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In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.

Booker T. Washington

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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Grief Opportunity Ourselves Shadow
If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.
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Achievement Himself Man Measurement Position Success True
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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Exception Hard Work Result Worth
If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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Attention Feeling Inheritance Life Mom Myself Worth
You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.
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Head Heart Ignorance Knowledge Skills Training Yourself
In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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Generosity Himself Preparation Service
Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
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Growth Law Man Stop
No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.
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Civilization Man Race Religion Thinking White
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
You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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Help Himself Man Trouble Understand
Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.
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Best Decision World Yourself
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
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
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
Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
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Hold Hurt Oneself Person
Character is power.
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Character One Liner Power
It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.
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Courage Rebel Silence Suffering
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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Accomplishment Goal Measurement Obstacle Reach
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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Architect Build Discussion Home Sight Strong
Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Cost Education Ignorance Price State
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
An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Abstraction Application Practical
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
We must reinforce argument with results.
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Argument Integrate Result
You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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Himself Hold Man Stay
Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.
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College Education Errors Man Religion Woman
Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.
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Cherish Cultivation Greatness Love Strong Weakness

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