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Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.

Booker T. Washington

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Essential Progress Purity Separate
Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
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Ethics People Stronger
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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Character Circumstance Man
You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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Help Himself Man Trouble Understand
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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Inspirational Knowledge Wisdom
Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those…who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.
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Calm Greatest Patient Possession Self
There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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Defense Development Highest
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
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 race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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Contribution Degree Market Race
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
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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Humility Karma Life
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.
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Clanking Country Hands Want
We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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Brother Color Man
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

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