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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

Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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Country Enough Knowing People
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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Capture Determination Patience Strength Success
We must reinforce argument with results.
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Argument Country People Results
Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.
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Habit might Two
Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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God Guide Law Nature Progress Star
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
Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Cost Education Ignorance Price State
Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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Chance Himself Remember
My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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Become Life Surprise Whole
To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say ‘Cast down your bucket where you are.’
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Men Race White
I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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Hate Men Permit
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
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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Body Heart People
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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Character Circumstance Man
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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Knowing Leader Political
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

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