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No one can degrade us except ourselves.

Booker T. Washington

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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Courage Rebel Silence Suffering
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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Habit Heart Hold Narrow Unfortunate
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
Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.
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Carry Connection Race Superior Worth
If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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Dreams Hard Reading Realization
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
Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.
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Best Decision World Yourself
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
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Effort Greatness Injury Life Race Youth
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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Happiness Less Misery People
A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Empowerment Lift Race
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
Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
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Attention Life Remote Small Success
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Empowerment Yourself
No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Exception Ourselves Validation Value
An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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Complain Value Worth
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
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
The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.
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Guide Himself Necessary Position
Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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Chance Himself Remember
There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Escape Help Man
Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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Help Himself Place Responsibility Trust Yourself
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
In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.
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Best Different History Race Willing World
I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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Hate Himself Low Man Myself
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
Success always leaves footprints.
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Leaving Mark One Liner Success
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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Character Circumstance Man

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