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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

Booker T. Washington

Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Long Running World
We must reinforce argument with results.
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Argument Integrate Result
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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End Himself Race Regard Willing World
I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Color Hate Himself Man Soul
The circumstances that surround a man’s life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.
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Circumstance Determination Factor Failure Important Life Man Success Surround
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
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Inspirational Motivational Obstacles
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
The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.
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Civilization Fortunate Hands Help Race Test Willing
…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
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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Inspirational Knowledge Wisdom
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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Care Count Man Woman World
If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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Dreams Hard Reading Realization
I do not believe that one should speak unless, deep down in his heart, he feels convinced that he has a message to deliver.
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Convinced Heart Message Mutual Progress
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
Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
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Country Grudge Hurt People
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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Inspirational Success Uplifting
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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Habit Heart Hold Narrow Unfortunate
Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Help Himself Place Responsibility Trust Yourself
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

Country Individual People Race World
There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Escape Help Man
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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Heart Prejudice Race
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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Knowing Leader Political
Success always leaves footprints.
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Country Footprint People Success
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
I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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Hate Men Permit
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
It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Exercise Important Preparation Privilege Right

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