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

Booker T. Washington

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
Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Escape Life People Strong Touch Weakness Yourself
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
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
An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Abstraction Application Practical
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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Character Circumstance Man
You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.
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Black Ethnic History Myself Race Time
Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Ethics People Stronger
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 Happy Inspirational
We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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Ignorance Narrow Rise Selfish
Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Grievance Opportunity
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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 believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Believe Health Heart
The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Progress Race Struggle
We must reinforce argument with results.
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Argument Integrate Result

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