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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.

Booker T. Washington

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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

End Himself Race Regard Willing 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
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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Exception Hard Work Result Worth
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
The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.
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Guide Himself Necessary Position
The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.
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Ability Character Himself Politics Possession Right Time
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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Capture Determination Patience Strength Success
In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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Generosity Himself Preparation Service
Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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Generosity Help Hold Kindness
Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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Cherish Cultivation Greatness Hate Love Spirit
We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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Learning Life Prosperity Way Yourself
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
Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.
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Accomplishment Greatness Patience Polite Result
There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Escape Help Man
Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Grief Opportunity Ourselves Shadow
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
Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
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Alone Character Economy Freedom Intelligence Man Politics Skills
A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Empowerment Lift Race
Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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Complete Control Drive Master Work
We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
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Beat Borrow Language Occasion Vocabulary Word
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.
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Best Decision World Yourself
You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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Himself Hold Man Stay
An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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Complain Value Worth
Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
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Growth Law Man Stop
An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Abstraction Application Practical
Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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Help Himself Place Responsibility Trust Yourself
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

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