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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.

Booker T. Washington

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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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Capture Determination Patience Strength Success
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
If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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Dreams Hard Reading Realization
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
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
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
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 Live Problem Question Study
You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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Himself Hold Man Stay
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
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
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
Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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Generosity Help Hold Kindness
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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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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Ignorance Narrow Rise Selfish
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
I believe that any man’s life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living.
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Believe Life Live Man Possible Purity
Character is power.
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Character One Liner Power
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Compassionate Generosity Happiness
My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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Life Oneself Surprise
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
We must reinforce argument with results.
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Argument Integrate Result
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 means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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Deal Foundation Greatness Myself Start Thinking
It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.
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Courage Rebel Silence Suffering
Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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Complete Control Drive Master Work
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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Character Circumstance Man
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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