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Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.

Booker T. Washington

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Help Himself Place Responsibility Trust Yourself
Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Hold Hurt Oneself Person
If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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Dreams Hard Reading Realization
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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Beginning Dignity Glorify Labor Life
Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Enough Start Yourself
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
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
An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Abstraction Application Practical
No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Exception Ourselves Validation Value
An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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Complain Value Worth
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
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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Help Humanity Life Worth
Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Escape Life People Strong Touch Weakness Yourself
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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Earth Influence Life Power Simplicity
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.
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Devotion Foundation Independence Leadership Politics
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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Intellectual Live Man Material Place Reward
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
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
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 Live Problem Question Study
Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
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Alone Character Economy Freedom Intelligence Man Politics Skills
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
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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Heart Nation People Slave Unfortunate
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
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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End Himself Race Regard Willing World
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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Common Excellence Way
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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Capture Determination Patience Strength Success
Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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Chance Himself Remember

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