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Character is power.

Booker T. Washington

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
You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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Help Himself Man Trouble Understand
Success always leaves footprints.
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Leaving Mark One Liner Success
I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of indispensable value.
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Believe Done Race
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
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Learning Measurement Myself Position Success
Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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Chance Himself Remember
Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.
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Mastered Problem Score Understand
Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Grief Opportunity Ourselves Shadow
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
It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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Foundation Mean Thinking
I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.
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Help Learning Lift Myself Thinking Way
The circumstances that surround a man’s life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.
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Circumstance Determination Factor Failure Important Life Man Success Surround
An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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Complain Value Worth
I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
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Ideas People Succeed
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
Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Country Ignorance People States

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