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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Booker T. Washington

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Common Excellence Way
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

Black History Hands Kwanzaa
We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Learning Life Prosperity Way Yourself
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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Ideas People Succeed
A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Individual Integrity Race
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Inspirational Work Writing
Do not do that which others can do as well.
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Happen Life Other Wells
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
I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Angel Hate Positive
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
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
There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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Development Exception High Intelligence Security
Character is power.
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Character Country People
An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Abstraction Application Practical
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
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Determination Waiting

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