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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.

Booker T. Washington

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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Escape Help Man
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Compassionate Generosity Happiness
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
I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.
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Heart Prejudice Race
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
I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
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Body Heart People
You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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Go Letting Men Stay Strong
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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Ethics People Stronger
The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
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Education Greatness Growth Man Old Woman
Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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Complete Control Drive Master Work
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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Character Circumstances Men
An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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Complain Value Worth
Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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Country Enough Knowing People
Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Grief Opportunity Ourselves Shadow
An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Application Clarity Communicate
We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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Clouds Ignorance Selfishness

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