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

Booker T. Washington

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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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Help Himself Man Trouble Understand
The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.
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Ability Character Himself Politics Possession Right Time
No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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Contribution Degree Market Race
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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Poem Prosperity Race Writing
Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Grief Opportunity Ourselves Shadow
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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Exception Hard Work Result Worth
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.
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Learning Measurement Myself Position Success
Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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Cherish Cultivation Greatness Hate Love Spirit
I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.
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Habit Heart Hold Narrow Unfortunate
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
The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.
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Death Experience Live Myself Opportunity World Worth
Character is power.
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Character One Liner Power
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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Capture Determination Patience Strength Success
Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Art Care Live Love Yourself
In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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Generosity Himself Preparation Service
It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.
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Exercise Important Preparation Privilege Right
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.
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Beginning Ideas Oneself Patience Success
The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
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Education Greatness Growth Man Old Woman
Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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Enough Start Yourself
An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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Complain Value Worth
I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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Hate Himself Low Man Myself
Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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Complete Control Drive Master Work
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
Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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Chance Himself Remember
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Compassionate Generosity Happiness
We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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Learning Life Prosperity Way Yourself
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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Accomplishment Goal Measurement Obstacle Reach

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