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

Booker T. Washington

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
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
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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Determination Waiting
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
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
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Inspirational Knowledge Wisdom
I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I resolved then that I would permit no man, no matter what his color, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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Color Hate Men
There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Escape Help Man
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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Himself Hold Man
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
I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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Hate Himself Low Man Myself
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
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
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Inspirational Motivational Obstacles
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Compassionate Generosity Happiness
Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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Generosity Help Hold Kindness
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
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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