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

Booker T. Washington

There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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Development Exception High Intelligence Security
You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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Himself Hold Man Stay
We must reinforce argument with results.
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Argument Integrate Result
We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
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Beat Borrow Language Occasion Vocabulary Word
It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.
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Exercise Important Preparation Privilege Right
The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
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Architect Build Discussion Home Sight Strong
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
I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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Hate Man Myself Permit
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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Accomplishment Goal Measurement Obstacle Reach
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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Escape Life People Strong Touch Weakness 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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Achievement Himself Man Measurement Position Success True
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
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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Color Hate Himself Man Soul
Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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God Guide Law Nature Progress Star
An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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Complain Value Worth
Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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Complete Control Drive Master Work
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
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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Economic Education Independence Politics Race Religion
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
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Effort Greatness Injury Life Race Youth
An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Abstraction Application Practical
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
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
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Learning Measurement Myself Position Success
There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Escape Help Man
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
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
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
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

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