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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.

Booker T. Washington

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I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
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Heart Nation People Slave Unfortunate
I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
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Ideas People Succeed
We must reinforce argument with results.
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Argument Integrate Result
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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Exception Hard Work Result Worth
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
Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
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Alone Character Economy Freedom Intelligence Man Politics Skills
A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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Helping Lifts Way
Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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Cherish Cultivation Greatness Hate Love Spirit
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 Return Slavery
Character is power.
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Character Country People
Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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Chance Himself Remember
An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Application Clarity Communicate
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
Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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Country Enough Knowing People
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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Men Overcoming Want
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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Inspirational Motivational Success

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