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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

The circumstances that surround a man’s life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Circumstance Determination Factor Failure Important Life Man Success Surround
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
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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End Himself Race Regard Willing 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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Long Running World
Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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Generosity Help Hold Kindness
Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Country Ignorance People States
A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Empowerment Lift Race
I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
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Heart Nation People Slave Unfortunate
There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
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Oneself Strength Way
And that out of this very resistance to wrong, out of the struggle against odds, they have gained strength, self-confidence, and experience which they could not have gained in any other way.
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Confidence Experience Gained Self Way
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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Inspirational Work Writing
We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.
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Clanking Country Hands Want
An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Application Clarity Communicate
Success always leaves footprints.
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Country Footprint People Success
Do not do that which others can do as well.
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Happen Life Other Wells
Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.
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Knowing Leader Political

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.

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