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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

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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
You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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Go Letting Men Stay Strong
An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Abstraction Application Practical
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
Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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Chance Himself Remember
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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Dreams Hard Reading Realization
Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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Inspirational Inspiring Success
Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
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Country Grudge Hurt People
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
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Inspirational Knowledge Wisdom
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
I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.
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Heart Prejudice Race
No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Exception Ourselves Validation Value
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Compassion Happiness Helping Others
It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.
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Courage Rebel Silence Suffering
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

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