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

Booker T. Washington

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
We must reinforce argument with results.
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Argument Country People Results
Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Grievance Opportunity
The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
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Country Individual People Race World
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
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
We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.
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Hands Ideas Intelligent
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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Inspirational Life Success
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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Leadership Life Power
Character is power.
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Character Country People
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
The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
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Architect Build Discussion Home Sight Strong
Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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Country Enough Knowing People
It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.
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Courage Rebel Silence Suffering
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
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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