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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.

Booker T. Washington

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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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Become Life Surprise Whole
Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Grief Opportunity Ourselves Shadow
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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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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Country Grudge Hurt People
Years ago I resolved that because I had no ancestry myself I would leave a record of which my children would be proud, and which might encourage them to still higher effort
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Ancestry Children Effort Higher Leave Proud
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
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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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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Bottom Common Labor
You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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Himself Hold Man Stay
Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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Enough Start Yourself
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
A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Individual Integrity Race
Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
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Countries People Some Jobs Wants
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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End Himself Race Regard Willing World
The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.
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Guide Himself Necessary Position
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

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