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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.

Booker T. Washington

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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Common Excellence Way
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
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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Inspirational Knowledge Wisdom
Even where he has the least education and the least encouragement, is incomparably better than the condition and opportunities of the agricultural population in Sicily.
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Agricultural Condition Incomparably Population Sicily
Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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Country Enough Knowing People
There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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Defense Development Highest
In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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Generosity Himself Preparation Service
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
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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Education Greatness Growth Man Old Woman
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
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
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Inspirational Motivational Obstacles
I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
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Ideas People Succeed
Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
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Attention Life Remote Small Success
Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
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Attention Life Success
We must reinforce argument with results.
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Argument Integrate Result
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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Civilization Man Race Religion Thinking White

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