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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.

Booker T. Washington

A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Individual Integrity Race
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
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
A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
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Help Humanity Life Worth
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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Character Circumstances Men
You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.
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Black Ethnic History Myself Race Time
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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Communication Pockets Vocabulary
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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
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
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
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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Inspirational Success Uplifting
Character is power.
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Character Country People
In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
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Essential Progress Purity Separate
Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Cost Education Ignorance Price State
From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.
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Freedom Ideas Myself Return Slave

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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