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

Booker T. Washington

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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Architect Build Discussion Home Sight Strong
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 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 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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Inspirational Work Writing
I believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Believe Health Heart
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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Hope Life Success
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
Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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Chance Himself Remember
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
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.
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Beat Borrow Language Occasion Vocabulary Word
We must reinforce argument with results.
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Argument Integrate Result
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
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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Leadership Life Power
Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.
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Country Disadvantage Exist Freedom Happiness
Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.
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Habit might Two

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