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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

Booker T. Washington

We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Ignorance Narrow Rise Selfish
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
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Empowerment Yourself
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
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
Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.
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Devotion Foundation Independence Leadership Politics
An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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Complain Value Worth
I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim “”Do not get others to do what you can do yourself.”” My motto on the other hand is; “”Do not do that which others can do as well.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Affirmation Learning Myself Thinking
Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Carry Connection Race Superior Worth
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
My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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Life Oneself Surprise
Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Art Care Live Love Yourself
No one can degrade us except ourselves.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Exception Ourselves Validation Value
I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.
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Help Learning Lift Myself Thinking Way
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
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
Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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Cherish Cultivation Greatness Hate Love Spirit
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Himself Hold Man
I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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Hate Man Myself Permit
Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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Chance Himself Remember
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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Capture Determination Patience Strength Success
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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Heart Nation People Slave Unfortunate
Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Circumstance Determination Factor Failure Important Life Man Success Surround
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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Beginning Ideas Oneself Patience Success
There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Escape Help Man
It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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Deal Foundation Greatness Myself Start Thinking

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