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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

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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 Law
We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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Ignorance Narrow Rise Selfish
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
No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Exception Ourselves Validation Value
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
An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Abstraction Application Practical
A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
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Helpful Humanity Inspirational Life
Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Country Ignorance People States
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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Country Grudge Hurt People
There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Brotherhood Drag 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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Carry Connection Race Superior Worth
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
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
A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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Helping Lifts Way
Remember that everyone’s life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
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Life Measurement Power Remember World
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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