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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.

Booker T. Washington

Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
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Inspirational Motivational Obstacles
Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.
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College Education Errors Man Religion Woman
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
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
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
If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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Attention Feeling Inheritance Life Mom Myself Worth
Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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Generosity Help Hold Kindness
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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Inspirational Success Uplifting
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
We must reinforce argument with results.
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Argument Country People Results
My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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Become Life Surprise Whole
Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Country Ignorance People States
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
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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Down Man One Remaining
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
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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Leadership Life Power

A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.

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