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The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.

Booker T. Washington

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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Grief Opportunity Ourselves Shadow
Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.
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College Education Errors Man Religion Woman
An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Abstraction Application Practical
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
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
We must reinforce argument with results.
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Argument Integrate Result
No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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Contribution Degree Market Race
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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Character Circumstance Man
Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Cost Education Ignorance Price State
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
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
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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Common Excellence Way
Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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Chance Himself Remember
I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.
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Help Learning Lift Myself Thinking Way
We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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Brother Color Man
We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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Ignorance Narrow Rise Selfish
Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
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Hold Hurt Oneself Person
You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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Help Himself Man Trouble Understand
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
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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Beginning Dignity Glorify Labor Life
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Empowerment Yourself
Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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Complete Control Drive Master Work
Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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God Guide Law Nature Progress Star
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
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
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
Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Cherish Cultivation Greatness Love Strong Weakness

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