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Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.

Booker T. Washington

The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.
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Civilization Fortunate Hands Help Race Test Willing
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
Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens.
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Christian Hands Thinking
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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Common Excellence Way
Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Grievance Opportunity
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
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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Himself Hold Man
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
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
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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Done Quiet Said
We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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Ignorance Narrow Rise Selfish
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
No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Degrade Positive Positivity
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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Accomplishment Greatness Patience Polite Result
There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Brotherhood Drag Men
There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Escape Help Man

Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.

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