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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

Booker T. Washington

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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Common Excellence Way
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Compassion Happiness Helping Others
We must reinforce argument with results.
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Argument Integrate Result
The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.
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Death Experience Live Myself Opportunity World 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 white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.
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Food Men Thinking
In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists.
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Country Disadvantage Law Men People
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
A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
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Helpful Humanity Inspirational Life
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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Happiness Happy Inspirational
The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
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Book Equal Men
Years ago I resolved that because I had no ancestry myself I would leave a record of which my children would be proud, and which might encourage them to still higher effort
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Ancestry Children Effort Higher Leave Proud
You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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Himself Hold Man Stay
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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Bottom Common Labor
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
The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
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End Himself Race Regard Willing World

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