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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.

Booker T. Washington

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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Hate Men Race
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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Communication Pockets Vocabulary
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 actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
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Class House Sight
Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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Generosity Help Hold Kindness
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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Common Excellence Way
Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.
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Carry Connection Race Superior Worth
Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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Law Progress Stars
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
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
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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Country Individual People Race World
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
The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.
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Progress Race Struggle
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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Capture Determination Patience Strength Success
Do not do that which others can do as well.
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Happen Life Other Wells
No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Exception Ourselves Validation Value

I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.

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