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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

Booker T. Washington

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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Devotion Foundation Independence Leadership Politics
Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Cost Education Ignorance Price State
The circumstances that surround a man’s life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.
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Circumstance Determination Factor Failure Important Life Man Success Surround
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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Accomplishment Goal Measurement Obstacle Reach
The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.
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Progress Race Struggle
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
We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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Brother Color Man
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
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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Inspirational Work Writing
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
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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Color Hate Himself Man Soul
A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Individual Integrity Race
You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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Himself Hold Man Stay
Do not do that which others can do as well.
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Happen Life Other Wells
An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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Inches Progress Yards
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
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Care Count Man Woman World

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