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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.

Booker T. Washington

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
Character is power.
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Character One Liner Power
Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Country Ignorance People States
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
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Learning Measurement Myself Position Success
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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Poem Prosperity Race Writing
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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Devotion Foundation Independence Leadership Politics
We must reinforce argument with results.
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Argument Integrate Result
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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Capture Determination Patience Strength Success
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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Inspirational Success Uplifting
My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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Become Life Surprise Whole
I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
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Ideas People Succeed
Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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Enough Start Yourself
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
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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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Calm Greatest Patient Possession Self
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
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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Care Count Man Woman World
We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.
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Clanking Country Hands Want
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
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.
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Humility Karma Life
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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Determination Waiting
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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Economic Education Independence Politics Race Religion
The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.
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Dying Life Opportunity
I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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Hate Man Myself Permit
No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Degrade Positive Positivity
Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Cost Education Ignorance Price State
The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.
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Death Experience Live Myself Opportunity World Worth

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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