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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.

Booker T. Washington

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There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Oneself Strength Way
Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
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Growth Law Man Stop
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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Beginning Dignity Glorify Labor Life
I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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Hate Man Myself Permit
An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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Complain Value Worth
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
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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Common Excellence Way
No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Exception Ourselves Validation Value
From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.
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Freedom Ideas Myself Return Slave
No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.
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Civilization Man Race Religion Thinking White
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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Himself Hold Man
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
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
A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Empowerment Lift Race
We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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Ignorance Narrow Rise Selfish
In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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Generosity Himself Preparation Service
Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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Cherish Cultivation Greatness Hate Love Spirit
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Compassionate Generosity Happiness
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
Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.
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Cherish Cultivation Greatness Love Strong Weakness
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.
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Essential Progress Purity Separate
Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Cost Education Ignorance Price State
Success always leaves footprints.
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Leaving Mark One Liner Success
Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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Enough Start Yourself
We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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Brother Color Man
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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Capture Determination Patience Strength Success
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

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