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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.

Booker T. Washington

Character is power.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Character One Liner Power
Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Knowing Leader Political
I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of indispensable value.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Believe Done Race
Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.
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Country Disadvantage Exist Freedom Happiness
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
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Effort Greatness Injury Life Race Youth
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
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Inspirational Motivational Obstacles
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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Inspirational Motivational Success
Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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Chance Himself Remember
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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Believe Life Live Man Possible Purity
We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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Clouds Ignorance Selfishness
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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Agricultural Condition Incomparably Population Sicily
No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Degrade Positive Positivity
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 Happy Inspirational
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
We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
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Beat Borrow Language Occasion Vocabulary Word
And that out of this very resistance to wrong, out of the struggle against odds, they have gained strength, self-confidence, and experience which they could not have gained in any other way.
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Confidence Experience Gained Self Way
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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Character Circumstances Men
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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Inspirational Work Writing
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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Care Count Man Woman World
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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Exercise Important Preparation Privilege Right
Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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Complete Control Drive Master Work
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Capture Determination Patience Strength Success
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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Heart Prejudice Race
Character is power.
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Character Country People
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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Common Excellence Way
Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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Inspirational Inspiring Success

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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