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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Booker T. Washington

The circumstances that surround a man’s life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Circumstance Determination Factor Failure Important Life Man Success Surround
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
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
Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those…who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.
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Calm Greatest Patient Possession Self
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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Beginning Ideas Oneself Patience Success
Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Cost Education Ignorance Price State
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.
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Ability Character Himself Politics Possession Right Time
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
No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Exception Ourselves Validation Value
Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.
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Long Running World
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
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
Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.
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Cherish Cultivation Greatness Love Strong Weakness
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
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

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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