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Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.

Booker T. Washington

A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Individual Integrity Race
The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse circumstances can take from him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Determination Men Success
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
An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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Complain Value Worth
There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
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Oneself Strength Way
Success always leaves footprints.
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Country Footprint People Success
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
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Inspirational Life Success
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 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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Progress Race Struggle
You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.
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Character Hands Heart
It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.
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Exercise Important Law
An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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Inches Progress Yards
I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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Hate Man Myself Permit
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
It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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Foundation Mean Thinking
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.
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Hate Men Race

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