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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.

Booker T. Washington

The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your ‘civilization’.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Civilization Problem Study
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
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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Buckets Common Way
Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Country Ignorance People States
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
Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Grievance Opportunity
Remember that everyone’s life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Life Measurement Power Remember World
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
A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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Helping Lifts Way
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
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
Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Generosity Help Hold Kindness
A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Empowerment Lift Race
The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.
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Civilization Fortunate Hands Help Race Test Willing
An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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Inches Progress Yards
Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.
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Mastered Problem Score Understand

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