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You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.

Booker T. Washington

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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.
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Alone Character Economy Freedom Intelligence Man Politics Skills
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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Knowing Leader Political
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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Men Overcoming Want
Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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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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Poem Prosperity Race Writing
The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.
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Civilization Fortunate Hands Help Race Test Willing
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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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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Character Circumstances Men
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
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
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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Hold Hurt Oneself Person
I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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Hate Man Myself Permit
We must reinforce argument with results.
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Argument Country People Results
Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Country Ignorance People States
Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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