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We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.

Booker T. Washington

In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists.
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Country Disadvantage Law Men 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
We must reinforce argument with results.
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Argument Country People Results
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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Life Measurement Power Remember World
A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Empowerment Lift Race
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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Education Greatness Growth Man Old Woman
Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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Chance Himself Remember
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
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
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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Achievement Himself Man Measurement Position Success True
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
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
Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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Complete Control Drive Master Work
There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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Defense Development Highest

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