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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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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Empowerment Lift Race
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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
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
Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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Country Enough Knowing People
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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Country Individual People Race World
The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.
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Civilization Fortunate Hands Help Race Test Willing
No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Degrade Positive Positivity
No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Exception Ourselves Validation Value
I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
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Ideas People Succeed
A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
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Help Humanity Life Worth
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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Character Circumstance Man
An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Application Clarity Communicate
The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your ‘civilization’.
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Civilization Problem Study
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
In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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Generosity Himself Preparation Service

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