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The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

Booker T. Washington

I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim “”Do not get others to do what you can do yourself.”” My motto on the other hand is; “”Do not do that which others can do as well.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Affirmation Learning Myself Thinking
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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Bottom Common Labor
No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Humility Karma Life
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

Character Hands Heart
An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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Complain Value Worth
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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Angel Hate Positive
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
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Effort Greatness Injury Life Race Youth
Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Cost Education Ignorance Price State
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Compassion Happiness Helping Others
A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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Helping Lifts Way
No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Exception Ourselves Validation Value
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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Education Greatness Growth Man Old Woman
In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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Generosity Himself Preparation Service
I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I resolved then that I would permit no man, no matter what his color, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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Color Hate Men
Character is power.
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Character One Liner Power
Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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Complete Control Drive Master Work

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