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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

Booker T. Washington

…those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much sufering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.
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Criticism People Proposition Result
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
Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.
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Long Running World
There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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Development Exception High Intelligence Security
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
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
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
Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
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Hold Hurt Oneself Person
The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your ‘civilization’.
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Civilization Live Problem Question Study
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
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
Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.
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Best Decision World Yourself
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
If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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Dreams Hard Reading Realization
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 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

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