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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.

Booker T. Washington

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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Achievement Himself Man Measurement Position Success True
In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Essential Progress Purity Separate
A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Individual Integrity Race
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Beginning Dignity Glorify Labor Life
I believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Believe Health Heart
Success always leaves footprints.
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Country Footprint People Success
Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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Cherish Cultivation Greatness Hate Love Spirit
Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Habit might Two
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
Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Enough Start Yourself
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
Even where he has the least education and the least encouragement, is incomparably better than the condition and opportunities of the agricultural population in Sicily.
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Agricultural Condition Incomparably Population Sicily
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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Architect Build Discussion Home Sight Strong
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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Inspirational Life Success
…those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much sufering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.
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Criticism People Proposition Result

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