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

Booker T. Washington

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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Empowerment Lift Race
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.
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Head Heart Ignorance Knowledge Skills Training Yourself
Years ago I resolved that because I had no ancestry myself I would leave a record of which my children would be proud, and which might encourage them to still higher effort
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Ancestry Children Effort Higher Leave Proud
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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Capture Determination Patience Strength Success
We must reinforce argument with results.
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Argument Country People Results
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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Poem Prosperity Race Writing
Character is power.
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Character One Liner Power
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
An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Abstraction Application Practical
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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Determination Waiting
There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
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Oneself Strength Way
Remember that everyone’s life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
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Life Measurement Power Remember World
Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Cost Education Ignorance Price State
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
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Care Count Man Woman World
I believe that any man’s life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living.
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Believe Life Live Man Possible Purity
I believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking.
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Believe Health Heart

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