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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.

Booker T. Washington

If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.
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Christian Men Years
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
Character is power.
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Character Country People
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
We must reinforce argument with results.
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Argument Integrate Result
Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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Enough Start Yourself
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
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Compassion Happiness Helping Others
If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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Attention Feeling Inheritance Life Mom Myself Worth
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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Achievement Himself Man Measurement Position Success True
Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color.
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Hate Men Race
I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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Angel Hate Positive
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.
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Black History Hands Kwanzaa
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
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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Character Men Skill
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

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