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Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Booker T. Washington

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We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.
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Clanking Country Hands Want
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
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
It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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Deal Foundation Greatness Myself Start Thinking
Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Grievance Opportunity
Character is power.
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Character One Liner Power
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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Exception Hard Work Result Worth
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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Education Independence Race
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
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Effort Greatness Injury Life Race Youth
My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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Become Life Surprise Whole
An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Abstraction Application Practical
A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Individual Integrity Race
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
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
There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.
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Class Jobs Race
I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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Angel Hate Positive

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