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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

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
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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Accomplishment Greatness Patience Polite Result
We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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Buckets Common Way
Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
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Attention Life Remote Small Success
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Empowerment Yourself
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

Black History Hands Kwanzaa
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
I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I resolved then that I would permit no man, no matter what his color, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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Color Hate Men
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 thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.
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Feeling Oneself Right Time
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
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Education Independence Race
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
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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Common Excellence Way
Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Country Ignorance People States
Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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Enough Start Yourself
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
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
An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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Complain Value Worth
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
Do not do that which others can do as well.
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Happen Life Other Wells
No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Degrade Positive Positivity
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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Inspirational Success Uplifting
Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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Complete Control Drive Master Work
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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Ignorance Narrow Rise Selfish
Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens.
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Christian Hands Thinking
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

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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