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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.

Booker T. Washington

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From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.
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Freedom Ideas Return Slavery
The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Character is power.
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Character One Liner Power
A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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Helping Lifts Way
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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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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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Application Clarity Communicate
Success always leaves footprints.
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You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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Accomplishment Goal Measurement Obstacle Reach
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
Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Grief Opportunity Ourselves Shadow
We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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Ignorance Narrow Rise Selfish
Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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Argument Country People Results

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