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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.

Booker T. Washington

Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
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Alone Character Economy Freedom Intelligence Man Politics Skills
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
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
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
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
Character is power.
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Character Country People
I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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Hate Man Myself Permit
There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Brotherhood Drag Men
Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Grief Opportunity Ourselves Shadow
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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Country Grudge Hurt People
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
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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Earth Influence Life Power Simplicity
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
The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your ‘civilization’.
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Civilization Problem Study
I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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Color Hate Himself Man Soul
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

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