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Booker T. Washington

The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.
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Civilization Fortunate Hands Help Race Test Willing
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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Family Inspiration Success
Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Grievance Opportunity
…those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much sufering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.
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Criticism People Proposition Result
Years ago I resolved that because I had no ancestry myself I would leave a record of which my children would be proud, and which might encourage them to still higher effort
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Ancestry Children Effort Higher Leave Proud
Do not do that which others can do as well.
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Happen Life Other Wells
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
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
I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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Hate Man Myself Permit
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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Heart Prejudice Race
No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Degrade Positive Positivity
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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Character Circumstances Men
We must reinforce argument with results.
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Argument Integrate Result
If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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Attention Feeling Inheritance Life Mom Myself Worth
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

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