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I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.

Booker T. Washington

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You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Head Heart Ignorance Knowledge Skills Training Yourself
The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.
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Feeling Oneself Right Time
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
Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Cost Education Ignorance Price State
There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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Development Exception High Intelligence Security
No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Exception Ourselves Validation Value
We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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Brother Color Man
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come.
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Life Measurement Obstacle Success Yourself
In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
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Essential Progress Purity Separate
In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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Generosity Himself Preparation Service
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
We must reinforce argument with results.
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Argument Integrate Result
You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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Himself Hold Man Stay
There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Escape Help Man
Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Grief Opportunity Ourselves Shadow
An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Abstraction Application Practical
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
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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Devotion Foundation Independence Leadership Politics
Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.
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Accomplishment Greatness Patience Polite Result
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
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
Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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God Guide Law Nature Progress Star
In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.
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Best Different History Race Willing World
We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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Learning Life Prosperity Way Yourself
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
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 Live Problem Question Study

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