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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

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 Problem Study
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
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 Happy Inspirational
You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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Himself Hold Man Stay
An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Application Clarity Communicate
If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.
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Men Overcoming Want
The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.
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Feeling Oneself Right Time
I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.
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Heart Prejudice Race
I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
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Body Heart People
You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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Help Himself Man Trouble Understand
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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Beginning Dignity Glorify Labor Life
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
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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Character Hands Heart
Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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Family Inspiration Success
My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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Life Oneself Surprise
Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Grief Opportunity Ourselves Shadow
Do not do that which others can do as well.
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Happen Life Other Wells
I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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Hate Men Permit
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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Inspirational Motivational Success
If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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Dreams Hard Reading Realization
…those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much sufering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.
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Criticism People Proposition Result
You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.
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Black Ethnic History Myself Race Time
Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.
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College Education Errors Man Religion Woman
We must reinforce argument with results.
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Argument Country People Results
Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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Enough Start Yourself
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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Determination Waiting
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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Character Circumstance Man

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