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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.

Booker T. Washington

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It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.
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Courage Rebel Silence Suffering
Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Grief Opportunity Ourselves Shadow
Remember that everyone’s life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
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Life Measurement Power Remember World
I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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Color Hate Himself Man Soul
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.
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Architect Build Discussion Home Sight Strong
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come.
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Life Measurement Obstacle Success Yourself
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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Character Circumstance Man
You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.
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Character Hands Heart
I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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Hate Himself Low Man Myself
Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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Cherish Cultivation Greatness Hate Love Spirit
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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Helpful Humanity Inspirational Life
It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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Foundation Mean Thinking
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
An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Abstraction Application Practical
Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens.
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Christian Hands Thinking
Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Cost Education Ignorance Price State

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