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Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Booker T. Washington

My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Life Oneself Surprise
Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Art Care Live Love 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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Helpful Humanity Inspirational Life
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
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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Effort Greatness Injury Life Race Youth
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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Down Man One Remaining
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
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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Character Circumstance Man
I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
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Heart Nation People Slave Unfortunate
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
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
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
We must reinforce argument with results.
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Argument Integrate Result
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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Differences Race Running
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
Success always leaves footprints.
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Leaving Mark One Liner Success
And that out of this very resistance to wrong, out of the struggle against odds, they have gained strength, self-confidence, and experience which they could not have gained in any other way.
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Confidence Experience Gained Self Way
Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color.
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Hate Men Race
Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Grievance Opportunity
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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Inspirational Life Success
No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.
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Civilization Man Race Religion Thinking White
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
An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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Complain Value Worth
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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Black Ethnic History Myself Race Time
You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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Himself Hold Man Stay
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 Law
There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.
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Class Jobs Race

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