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Booker T. Washington

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
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Compassion Happiness Helping Others
Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Cost Education Ignorance Price State
An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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Inches Progress Yards
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 Law
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
You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.
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Head Heart Ignorance Knowledge Skills Training Yourself
There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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Defense Development Highest
There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.
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Class Jobs Race
You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.
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Black Ethnic History Myself Race Time
A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
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Help Humanity Life Worth
A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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Helping Lifts Way
Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
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Hold Hurt Oneself Person
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
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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Capture Determination Patience Strength Success
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

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