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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 longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your ‘civilization’.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Civilization Live Problem Question Study
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
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Inspirational Motivational Obstacles
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
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Economic Education Independence Politics Race Religion
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come.
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Life Measurement Obstacle Success Yourself
Character is power.
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Character One Liner Power
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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Help Himself Place Responsibility Trust Yourself
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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Best Decision World Yourself
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
A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Empowerment Lift Race
Character is power.
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Character Country People
Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.
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College Education Errors Man Religion Woman
We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.
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Hands Ideas Intelligent
In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
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Essential Progress Purity Separate
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
I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I resolved then that I would permit no man, no matter what his color, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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Color Hate Men

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