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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.

Booker T. Washington

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Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.
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Carry Connection Race Superior Worth
In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.
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Best Different History Race Willing World
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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Enough Start Yourself
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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Accomplishment Goal Measurement Obstacle Reach
My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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Life Oneself Surprise
Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
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Escape Life People Strong Touch Weakness Yourself
No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Exception Ourselves Validation Value
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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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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Help Himself Man Trouble Understand
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
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.
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Exercise Important Preparation Privilege Right
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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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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Generosity Help Hold Kindness
I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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Hate Himself Low Man Myself
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come.
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Life Measurement Obstacle Success Yourself
A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
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Help Humanity Life Worth
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
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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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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No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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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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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Empowerment Lift Race
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Empowerment Yourself
I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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Hate Man Myself Permit
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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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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