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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.

Booker T. Washington

There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Defense Development Highest
I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Hate Man Myself Permit
You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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Himself Hold Man Stay
Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.
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College Education Errors Man Religion Woman
An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Abstraction Application Practical
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
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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Help Himself Place Responsibility Trust Yourself
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
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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Down Man One Remaining
Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Inspirational Inspiring Success
The circumstances that surround a man’s life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.
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Circumstance Determination Factor Failure Important Life Man Success Surround
Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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Law Progress Stars
There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.
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Class Jobs Race
Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.
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Best Decision World Yourself
In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists.
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Country Disadvantage Law Men People
There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Brotherhood Drag Men

An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.

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