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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.

Booker T. Washington

Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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Generosity Help Hold Kindness
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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Character Circumstances Men
We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
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Beat Borrow Language Occasion Vocabulary Word
You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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Himself Hold Man Stay
To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say ‘Cast down your bucket where you are.’
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Men Race White
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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Helpful Humanity Inspirational Life
Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.
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Habit might Two
Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Country Ignorance People States
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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Inspirational Inspiring Success
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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Poem Prosperity Race Writing
It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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Deal Foundation Greatness Myself Start Thinking
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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Happiness Less Misery People
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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Body Heart People
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Compassion Happiness Helping Others
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
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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Down Man One Remaining

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